Re: [PATCH 8/9] bq27x00: Add miscdevice for each battery with ioctl for reading registers

From: Pali Rohár
Date: Fri Nov 25 2011 - 15:54:17 EST


On Saturday 26 November 2011 00:46:26 Anton Vorontsov wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 09:30:28PM +0100, Pali Rohár wrote:
> [...]
>
> > This interface is not only for BME. Also some popular bq27200.sh script
> > which print bq registers in human readable form needs this interface
> > (with LD_PRELOAD library).
> >
> > Link for that shell script http://enivax.net/jk/n900/bq.tar
>
> That might be a good excuse to have the raw interface. Although,
> as this is for debugging purposes only, the same effect can be
> accomplished by unloading bq module and using i2c userspace
> interface directly... I guess.
>

Yes, unloading bq module and then starting script working. But I think that we
could have some interface how to access directly to i2c when some i2c module
for chip is loaded.

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Pali Rohár
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