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From: Matthew Garrett <matthew.garrett@nebula.com>
To: "jdelvare@suse.de" <jdelvare@suse.de>
Cc: "linux-i2c@vger.kernel.org" <linux-i2c@vger.kernel.org>,
	"rjw@rjwysocki.net" <rjw@rjwysocki.net>,
	"seth.heasley@intel.com" <seth.heasley@intel.com>,
	"prarit@redhat.com" <prarit@redhat.com>,
	"janet.morgan@intel.com" <janet.morgan@intel.com>,
	"bhelgaas@google.com" <bhelgaas@google.com>,
	"mstowe@redhat.com" <mstowe@redhat.com>,
	"linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org" <linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC] i2c algo, Add i2c-algo-i801 driver [v1]
Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2014 18:58:12 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1397069892.5276.24.camel@x230> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140409205614.2ee3c25c@endymion.delvare>

On Wed, 2014-04-09 at 20:56 +0200, Jean Delvare wrote:
> Hi Matthew,
> > 
> > These systems simply don't safely support OS-level i2c access.
> 
> But people need that. And they have been for almost a decade. It's
> about time that hardware vendors realize that. Yes, I mean Intel,
> amongst others.

There is no safe way to do it. If the user is happy to accept the
inherent dangers, the user can pass the kernel parameter.

-- 
Matthew Garrett <matthew.garrett@nebula.com>

  reply	other threads:[~2014-04-09 18:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-04-09 16:22 [PATCH RFC] i2c algo, Add i2c-algo-i801 driver [v1] Prarit Bhargava
     [not found] ` <1397060563-30431-1-git-send-email-prarit-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2014-04-09 16:36   ` Matthew Garrett
2014-04-09 17:02     ` Prarit Bhargava
     [not found]       ` <53457D0D.7020805-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2014-04-09 17:09         ` Matthew Garrett
2014-04-09 17:34           ` Prarit Bhargava
     [not found]             ` <5345849F.6070909-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2014-04-09 17:37               ` Matthew Garrett
2014-04-09 17:55                 ` Prarit Bhargava
     [not found]                   ` <53458992.4060003-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2014-04-09 17:59                     ` Matthew Garrett
2014-04-09 18:02                       ` Prarit Bhargava
     [not found]                         ` <53458B2A.30003-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2014-04-09 18:27                           ` Matthew Garrett
2014-04-09 19:22                       ` Jean Delvare
2014-04-09 19:24                         ` Matthew Garrett
2014-04-09 19:01           ` Jean Delvare
2014-04-09 19:05             ` Matthew Garrett
2014-04-10 19:15           ` Prarit Bhargava
2014-04-10 20:26             ` Matthew Garrett
2014-04-11 17:47               ` Prarit Bhargava
     [not found]                 ` <53482AC2.2060605-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2014-04-11 18:55                   ` Matthew Garrett
2014-04-09 18:56     ` Jean Delvare
2014-04-09 18:58       ` Matthew Garrett [this message]
2014-04-09 20:25         ` Jean Delvare
2014-04-09 16:37   ` Jean Delvare
2014-04-09 16:57     ` Prarit Bhargava
     [not found]       ` <53457C00.1030400-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2014-04-09 20:27         ` Jean Delvare

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