I2C_TRANSFER
Section: I2C and SMBus Subsystem (9)
Updated: February 2011
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NAME
i2c_transfer - execute a single or combined I2C message
SYNOPSIS
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int i2c_transfer(struct i2c_adapter * adap, struct i2c_msg * msgs, int num);
ARGUMENTS
adap
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- Handle to I2C bus
msgs
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One or more messages to execute before STOP is issued to terminate the operation; each message begins with a START.
num
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Number of messages to be executed.
DESCRIPTION
Returns negative errno, else the number of messages executed.
Note that there is no requirement that each message be sent to the same slave address, although that is the most common model.
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