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From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Harald Welte <laforge@gnumonks.org>
Cc: linuxppc-dev list <linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ugly hack to make therm_pm72 work on XServe G5
Date: Fri, 06 Aug 2004 18:09:14 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1091779753.9271.220.camel@gaston> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040806080406.GB11638@sunbeam2>


On Fri, 2004-08-06 at 18:04, Harald Welte wrote:
> I actually forgot that small userspace program ;)
>
> It is a total ripoff of the kernel driver and was implemented because
> it's easier to play with i2c from userspace during development.
>
> benh:  Any reason why you implemented your own byte+word read/write
> routines?  Apparently the i2c_smbus routines work quite fine, even from
> userspace...

I don't remember the exact reason, I had some issues, either with the
sensors or the FCU, or maybe it was for mimmicing OF code...

Ben.


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      reply	other threads:[~2004-08-06  8:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-08-05 11:43 [PATCH] ugly hack to make therm_pm72 work on XServe G5 Harald Welte
2004-08-06  8:04 ` Harald Welte
2004-08-06  8:09   ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]

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