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Jon Smirl wrote:

> Probing an i2c bus does not necessarily come to a good conclusion. The
> probes for some chips can alter the states in others. People have
> accidentally changed voltage settings and fried CPU chips. The process
> is not well defined.

I agree.  We should not be implementing any feature that encourages I2C bus
probing.

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Timur Tabi
Linux kernel developer at Freescale