Re: [PATCH 0 of 20] [RFC] ipath - PathScale InfiniPath driver

From: Horst von Brand
Date: Mon Jan 02 2006 - 16:32:13 EST


Lee Revell <rlrevell@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-12-29 at 16:01 -0300, Horst von Brand wrote:
> > > - Someone asked for the kernel's i2c infrastructure to be used,but
> > > our i2c usage is very specialised, and it would be more of a mess
> > > to use the kernel's

> > Problem with that is that if everybody and Aunt Tillie does the same,
> > the kernel as a whole gets to be a mess.

> ALSA does the exact same thing for the exact same reason. Maybe an
> indication that the kernel's i2c layer is too heavy?

That would mean that the respective teams should put their heads together
and (re)design it to their needs...
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