I2C Tools
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I2C Tools for Linux
The I2C tools that used to be part of the lm-sensors package have been split to a separate package. The rationale for that move is that not all hardware monitoring chips are I2C devices, and not all I2C devices are hardware monitoring chips, so having everything in a single package was confusing and impractical.
The i2c-tools package contains a heterogeneous set of I2C tools for Linux: a bus probing tool, a chip dumper, register-level SMBus access helpers, EEPROM decoding scripts, EEPROM programming tools, and a python module for SMBus access. All versions of Linux are supported, as long as I2C support is included in the kernel.
I2C Tools 4 is coming, see the plan!
Download
All released packages can be downloaded from https://www.kernel.org/pub/software/utils/i2c-tools/ (Mirror.) Files are signed by Jean Delvare.
Recommended patches for branch 3.1:
Git Repository
If you have git installed on your machine, you can check out the latest version of the stable code using the following command:
git clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/utils/i2c-tools/i2c-tools.git
Or for the legacy stable branch:
git clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/utils/i2c-tools/i2c-tools.git -b i2c-tools-3.1
You can also navigate the repository online at: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/utils/i2c-tools/i2c-tools.git/
Discussion and Bug Reports
For discussion and patches, use the linux-i2c mailing list, and Cc the current maintainer (find who that is at the bottom of the README file.)
Bugs can be filled at kernel.org's bugzilla under product "Tools", component "i2c-tools".