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From: greg@kroah.com (Greg KH)
To: lm-sensors@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [lm-sensors] [RFC] adding back i2c_get_clients
Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2005 08:56:45 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20051117074054.GA21137@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20051117003330.21bfff26@inspiron>

On Thu, Nov 17, 2005 at 12:33:30AM +0100, Alessandro Zummo wrote:
> 
>  Hello,
> 
>   I'd like to restart a topic that was discussed before, regarding the infrastructure
>  required to send a command/ioctl directly to an i2c client.

No, we don't want to allow new ioctls to be created/used.  Please use
other methods for this.

>   The topic was discussed in [1] and [2] more than one year ago. This missing
>  functionality led to all sort of tricks in both i2c rtc drivers and media drivers.

What exactly is the problem you are trying to solve?

thanks,

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2005-11-17  8:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-11-17  0:34 [lm-sensors] [RFC] adding back i2c_get_clients Alessandro Zummo
2005-11-17  8:56 ` Greg KH [this message]
2005-11-17 11:03 ` Alessandro Zummo
2005-11-17 11:35 ` Jean Delvare
2005-11-17 11:56 ` Alessandro Zummo
2005-11-17 13:03 ` Jean Delvare
2005-11-17 13:20 ` Alessandro Zummo
2005-11-17 14:33 ` Jean Delvare
2005-11-17 15:04 ` Alessandro Zummo
2005-11-17 18:01 ` Greg KH
2005-11-17 19:23 ` Alessandro Zummo
2005-11-17 19:27 ` Greg KH

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