Documentation updates, and a very small print fix in i2cdump.c

Note especially the autoloading of i2c-dev by adding the following line
to /etc/module.conf (or /etc/conf.module):
  alias char-major-89 i2c-dev


git-svn-id: http://lm-sensors.org/svn/lm-sensors/trunk@166 7894878c-1315-0410-8ee3-d5d059ff63e0
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Frodo Looijaard committed 1999-01-13 21:00:04 +00:00
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@@ -33,6 +33,10 @@ enter at the insmod command, in the configuration file. The syntax is
as follows:
options i2c-core debug=2
Finally, it is possible to auto-load the i2c-dev module if a /dev/i2c-*
file is accessed. You need the following line in the configuration file:
alias char-major-89 i2c-dev
With the above, the managing of all those modules is suddenly no problem
at all!
@@ -45,6 +49,9 @@ at all!
(src) i2c-proc: i2c-core
Creates /proc/bus/i2c* files.
(src) i2c-dev: smbus i2c-core
Grants access to /dev/i2c-* files
(src) smbus: i2c-core
SMBus emulation on i2c busses. Base algorithm, on which SMBus-only adapters
rely.
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@@ -7,6 +7,13 @@ this package.
file. It read /proc/bus/i2c (or the file specified on the command-line),
and prints to stdout `bus' statements reflecting the currently detected
adapters.
* prog/dump/i2cdump (written in C, not installed)
This program helps to dump the registers of a I2C device that understands
the 'byte data' or 'word data' SMBus protocols. Usual syntax:
./i2cdump 0 0x49 b
Here the '0' stands for i2c-0 (check /proc/bus/i2c to find out which bus
you need), '0x49' is the device address, and 'b' or 'w' stands for byte
or word data.
* prog/dump/isadump (written in C, not installed)
This program helps to dump the registers of LM78-like chips, or more
exactly, chips which use an I/O-port for its address and one as its
@@ -16,6 +23,9 @@ this package.
This program decodes the information generated by the `eeprom.o' module.
It will only work for the installed eeprom module from the src/ directory,
not for the old one in the i2c/drivers/ directory.
* prog/mkdev/mkdev.sh (written in bash, not installed)
This script creates the /dev/i2c-* files. Please check the source before
you run it, as you may need to set some variables first.
* prog/sensors/sensors (written in C, installed by `make install')
This pretty-prints the information provided by the modules. It is a normal
console application, using stdin and stdout. It is essential, because
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@@ -97,7 +97,7 @@ int main(int argc, char *argv[])
fprintf(stderr," WARNING! This program can confuse your I2C bus, "
"cause data loss and worse!\n");
fprintf(stderr," I will probe file %s, address %x, mode %s\n",
fprintf(stderr," I will probe file %s, address 0x%x, mode %s\n",
filename,address,size == SMBUS_BYTE_DATA?"byte":"word");
fprintf(stderr," You have five seconds to reconsider and press CTRL-C!\n\n");
sleep(5);