Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 27 Nov 2011 11:54:16 +0000 | From | Mark Brown <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 8/9] bq27x00: Add miscdevice for each battery with ioctl for reading registers |
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On Sat, Nov 26, 2011 at 02:04:48AM +0400, Anton Vorontsov wrote:
> What would be more practical, is to allow I2C core to provide > userspace interface even for already bound I2C devices.
> That could be some kind of CONFIG_I2C_UNSAFE_DEBUG: when > selected I2C core would allow access to all I2C devices. But still, > the niche for such a feature is tiny, so I doubt that it is worth > doing at all.
I don't know if it's applicable here but if this is a device that has registers that fit within regmap then the regmap API provides a debugfs interface for dumping the register map as standard.
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