From: Jean Delvare <jdelvare@suse.de>
To: Matthew Garrett <matthew.garrett@nebula.com>
Cc: linux-i2c@vger.kernel.org, rjw@rjwysocki.net,
seth.heasley@intel.com, prarit@redhat.com,
janet.morgan@intel.com, bhelgaas@google.com, mstowe@redhat.com,
linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC] i2c algo, Add i2c-algo-i801 driver [v1]
Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2014 22:25:46 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140409222546.71f3343e@endymion.delvare> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1397069892.5276.24.camel@x230>
On Wed, 9 Apr 2014 18:58:12 +0000, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> On Wed, 2014-04-09 at 20:56 +0200, Jean Delvare wrote:
> > Hi Matthew,
> > >
> > > These systems simply don't safely support OS-level i2c access.
> >
> > But people need that. And they have been for almost a decade. It's
> > about time that hardware vendors realize that. Yes, I mean Intel,
> > amongst others.
>
> There is no safe way to do it. If the user is happy to accept the
> inherent dangers, the user can pass the kernel parameter.
Oh, there is. There always is. It would just take a few engineers, an
equal amount of chairs and pencils, a table and a few sheets of paper.
There's no technical reason why this problem can't be solved.
--
Jean Delvare
SUSE L3 Support
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-04-09 20:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-04-09 16:22 [PATCH RFC] i2c algo, Add i2c-algo-i801 driver [v1] Prarit Bhargava
[not found] ` <1397060563-30431-1-git-send-email-prarit-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2014-04-09 16:36 ` Matthew Garrett
2014-04-09 17:02 ` Prarit Bhargava
[not found] ` <53457D0D.7020805-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2014-04-09 17:09 ` Matthew Garrett
2014-04-09 17:34 ` Prarit Bhargava
[not found] ` <5345849F.6070909-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2014-04-09 17:37 ` Matthew Garrett
2014-04-09 17:55 ` Prarit Bhargava
[not found] ` <53458992.4060003-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2014-04-09 17:59 ` Matthew Garrett
2014-04-09 18:02 ` Prarit Bhargava
[not found] ` <53458B2A.30003-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2014-04-09 18:27 ` Matthew Garrett
2014-04-09 19:22 ` Jean Delvare
2014-04-09 19:24 ` Matthew Garrett
2014-04-09 19:01 ` Jean Delvare
2014-04-09 19:05 ` Matthew Garrett
2014-04-10 19:15 ` Prarit Bhargava
2014-04-10 20:26 ` Matthew Garrett
2014-04-11 17:47 ` Prarit Bhargava
[not found] ` <53482AC2.2060605-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2014-04-11 18:55 ` Matthew Garrett
2014-04-09 18:56 ` Jean Delvare
2014-04-09 18:58 ` Matthew Garrett
2014-04-09 20:25 ` Jean Delvare [this message]
2014-04-09 16:37 ` Jean Delvare
2014-04-09 16:57 ` Prarit Bhargava
[not found] ` <53457C00.1030400-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2014-04-09 20:27 ` Jean Delvare
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