From: azummo-lists@towertech.it (Alessandro Zummo)
To: lm-sensors@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [lm-sensors] [RFC] adding back i2c_get_clients
Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2005 19:23:51 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20051117192312.348ab12e@inspiron> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20051117003330.21bfff26@inspiron>
On Thu, 17 Nov 2005 08:34:46 -0800
Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> wrote:
> Good, exporting functions is the proper way to do things like this.
> Like Jean showed, a simple set of function pointers is the correct way.
> We want type-safe checking and explicit interfaces like this. Not
> wide-open, unchecked, and possibly unsafe interfaces like ioctls.
>
> That's why I, and the other kernel developers are trying to prevent any
> future ioctls being added.
Ok, I'll work in that direction. Should I thus consider
i2c_driver->command to be deprecated?
--
Best regards,
Alessandro Zummo,
Tower Technologies - Turin, Italy
http://www.towertech.it
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-11-17 19:23 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
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 [this message]
2005-11-17 19:27 ` Greg KH
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