> Here i2c-0 is the "local" bus, i2c-4 and i2c-5 are the remote busses on
> ports 0 and 1. As you can see the eeproms are accessed using a name like
> "4-0050", meaning physical slave address 0x50 on bus 4. No alias is needed.
> 
> Should you want to know the alias, perhaps for debugging (it's the
> address you'll see on your logic analyzer), they are shown in the kernel
> log.

And to add to that: The aliases on i2c-0 will be marked busy and show up
as used if you run i2cdetect. So, you'd need a force-flag if you'd want
to access them from userspace.