Re: RFC [PATCH] acpi: allow SMBus access

[Bruno Ducrot]

On Mon, Jul 03, 2006 at 09:51:29AM +0800, Yu Luming wrote:
> On Monday 03 July 2006 05:12, Johan Vromans wrote:
> > From: Johan Vromans <jvromans@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > To get battery readings on some laptops it is necessary to interface
> > with the SMBus that hangs of the EC. However, the current
> > implementation of the EC driver does not permit other modules
> > read/write access.
> 
> why NOT use ec_read/ec_write?

Because ec_read/ec_write only handle one EC, maybe ?

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Bruno Ducrot

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