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From: Grigori Goronzy <greg@chown.ath.cx>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] drm/radeon: warn users when hw_i2c is enabled
Date: Tue, 07 Jan 2014 16:58:03 +0100
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On 07.01.2014 16:14, Alex Deucher wrote:
> The hw i2c engines are disabled by default as the
> current implementation is still experimental.  Print
> a warning when users enable it so that it's obvious
> when the option is enabled.
>

Does hardware I2C actually have any advantage in the DDC use case? 
AFAICT it's only transferring small amounts of data and mostly on 
display connect events, so not very often.

Best regards
Grigori