From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: jim.cromie@gmail.com (Jim Cromie) Date: Thu, 05 Jan 2006 14:30:12 +0000 Subject: [lm-sensors] abit-uguru review (OT diversion) Message-Id: <43BD2D74.1030208@gmail.com> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: lm-sensors@vger.kernel.org Hans de Goede wrote: sorry - I should have changed the subject-line earlier. > > I've thought about merging these too, but there actually a number of > subtile differences which when all added together make it easier to > just keep 2 versions: reminds me of a pointless stupidity in pc87360 gpio. the gpio unit has 29 gpios in 4 8 bit ports, 2 of them have extra functionality. sofar so good. but their address map gives 4 addys per port for ports 1, 2, and only 2 for ports 3,4 this complicates (ok, just a little) low-level routines needlessly, and still requires higher levels to look at the index. Needless obfuscation, and impediment to transparent functionality upgrades. IMHO. /me says, thinking of my past errors, and their legacy ;-)