Re: [PATCH 3/3] i2c: expose adapter probe and remove probed functions

[David Lechner]

On 09/16/2016 04:03 PM, Wolfram Sang wrote:
> > The intended use of these functions is for LEGO MINDSTORMS sensors. These
> > are hot-plugable I2C devices. When a sensor is connected, i2c_adapter_probe()
> > is called to automatically configure the sensor. When the sensor is
> > disconnected, i2c_adapter_remove_probed() is called to remove the
> > automatically configured device.
>
> How do you detect the hot-plug events?

There are "port" drivers that do this. An I2C adapter is assigned to 
each port via device-tree or platform data struct.

Port driver code if you are interested:
- 
https://github.com/ev3dev/lego-linux-drivers/blob/master/ev3/legoev3_ports_in.c
- 
https://github.com/ev3dev/lego-linux-drivers/blob/master/evb/evb_ports_in.c

In particular, here is where we call the new i2c_adapter_probe() 
function: 
https://github.com/ev3dev/lego-linux-drivers/blob/master/evb/evb_ports_in.c#L543