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From: Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] i2c/busses: Driver for Devantech USB-ISS I2C adapter
Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2011 15:42:40 +0000
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On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 08:31:15AM -0700, Greg KH wrote:

> Odd that windows does it all from userspace, but I guess it doesn't have
> an I2C driver subsystem.

These devices are typically intended to be used for diagnosis evaluation
of hardware so you want to drive the device from a pointy clicky GUI -
they're not terribly useful in production systems.