i2c-dev.h Issues

Okay,

I've been trying for days to get i2c-dev working properly. I have everything I need according to instructions, but for some reason I keep getting errors at ioctl. I'm using OpenWRT on a atheros platform. Everything is compiling properly without error but I am getting ioctl errors out the wazoo.

//CODE

//TEST BEGIN
int file;

//Open i2c dev
if(file = open( "/dev/i2c-0", O_RDWR )<0)
{
enabled = -1;
printf("Unable to open file /dev/i2c-0.\n");
}
else
{
printf("Opened file /dev/i2c-0.\n");
enabled = 1;
}

printf("File is %d\n",file);

if( ioctl( file, I2C_SLAVE, 0x4b ) < 0 )
{
printf("Error opening file: %s\n", strerror( errno ) );
printf("Open chip %d FAILED file %d\n", 0x4b, file);
}
else
{
printf("Open chip %d Succeeded file %d\n",0x4b, file);
}

//CODE END

At the level of ioctl(file, i2C_SLAVE,address) I get the following error: "Error opening file: Invalid argument". So I'm successfully opening /dev/i2c-0 but I can't do a ioctl to the specific chip address. I've already verified the chip address using i2cdetect, and I've also verified that I can read/write with the other i2ctools suite.

What am I missing?

I am including the i2c-dev.h file from the the i2c-tools package. I just put it in my src directory and I #include "i2c-dev.h" as my final include in my .cpp file. All the defines and functions are configuring correctly, so I imagine it's included right. But I wonder if I need to compile the i2c-dev.h file separately or in a different way than my other code?

I am compiling with -O2 as I understand that's somehow required. Not sure if there needs to be anything else special in my make file since everything is building correctly without errors.

Read ioctl(2) manpage, not to say that this is your problem:

Note
In order to use this call, one needs an open file descriptor. Often the open(2) call has unwanted side effects, that can be avoided under Linux by giving it the O_NONBLOCK flag.

Try the O_NONBLOCK and further, change the output to include the errno value

%d:%s\n", errno, strerror(errno));

Then you'll see the actual number and can correlate that from errno.h to the return value; such as EBADF, EINVAL, etc; which are also noted in the manpage for ioctl.

You say you have examples that work, if that code is available, look at it and copy it. Or search for I2C Linux source code examples.