Re: i2c-yosemite

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Sun Feb 22 2004 - 05:36:49 EST


On Sun, Feb 22, 2004 at 10:41:06AM +0100, Jean Delvare wrote:
> If everyone reimplements what already exists, the kernel is likely to go
> bigger with no benefit. Also, you won't be able to use all user-space
> tools that already exist, and will also have to write specific chip
> drivers for the chips present on the yosemite bus, although these
> drivers (Atmel 24C32 EEPROM and MAX 1619) already exist.
>
> Please explain to us why you cannot/don't want to use the existing i2c
> subsystem.

Yupp. While we're at it what should we do with the i2c reimplementations
in alsa and dvb?

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