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From: Michael Lawnick <ml.lawnick-Mmb7MZpHnFY@public.gmane.org>
To: linux-i2c-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org
Cc: Jean Delvare <khali-PUYAD+kWke1g9hUCZPvPmw@public.gmane.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH]i2c-dev: add ioctls PROBE and REMOVE
Date: Thu, 02 Apr 2009 14:36:27 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <49D4B14B.50405@gmx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090327150716.094666d1-ig7AzVSIIG7kN2dkZ6Wm7A@public.gmane.org>

Jean Delvare said the following:
> BTW, if you don't want your problem to be overlooked, I strongly
> suggest that you create yourself a wiki account on
> http://i2c.wiki.kernel.org/, create a page describing the problem and
> its proposed solution, and link to it from the "Work in progress"
> section.
> 
Ok, done.
<http://i2c.wiki.kernel.org/index.php?title=SysFs_entries_add_device/delete_device>

I made a patch, that uses i2c_new_device. But this won't use the detect
method of the client, so its possible to instantiate almost any code on
the given address :-(
Shouldn't we use i2c_detect_address() or something similar?

-- 
Kind regards,
Michael

  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-04-02 12:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-03-26  8:59 [PATCH]i2c-dev: add ioctls PROBE and REMOVE Michael Lawnick
     [not found] ` <49CB43E0.2050503-Mmb7MZpHnFY@public.gmane.org>
2009-03-27 10:19   ` Michael Lawnick
     [not found]     ` <49CCA82F.90106-Mmb7MZpHnFY@public.gmane.org>
2009-03-27 12:40       ` Jean Delvare
     [not found]         ` <20090327134034.754908b5-ig7AzVSIIG7kN2dkZ6Wm7A@public.gmane.org>
2009-03-27 13:13           ` Michael Lawnick
     [not found]             ` <49CCD0FC.9030500-Mmb7MZpHnFY@public.gmane.org>
2009-03-27 13:57               ` Jean Delvare
     [not found]                 ` <20090327145726.13c99aed-ig7AzVSIIG7kN2dkZ6Wm7A@public.gmane.org>
2009-03-27 14:07                   ` Jean Delvare
     [not found]                     ` <20090327150716.094666d1-ig7AzVSIIG7kN2dkZ6Wm7A@public.gmane.org>
2009-04-02 12:36                       ` Michael Lawnick [this message]
     [not found]                         ` <49D4B14B.50405-Mmb7MZpHnFY@public.gmane.org>
2009-04-07 10:15                           ` Jean Delvare
     [not found]                             ` <20090407121550.7d15bfae-ig7AzVSIIG7kN2dkZ6Wm7A@public.gmane.org>
2009-04-07 12:17                               ` Michael Lawnick
     [not found]                                 ` <49DB446A.2000705-Mmb7MZpHnFY@public.gmane.org>
2009-04-07 13:11                                   ` Jean Delvare

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