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From: azummo-lists@towertech.it (Alessandro Zummo)
Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2005 19:23:51 +0000
Subject: [lm-sensors] [RFC] adding back i2c_get_clients
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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?

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