From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Cc: sensors@Stimpy.netroedge.com, Deepak Saxena <dsaxena@plexity.net>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: checksum in (i2c) eeprom driver
Date: Thu, 9 Dec 2004 15:17:44 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20041209231744.GA6446@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <vojkqBdx.1102603548.0379010.khali@localhost>
On Thu, Dec 09, 2004 at 03:45:48PM +0100, Jean Delvare wrote:
>
> If the checksumming was that important, I guess it would have been the
> default, which it was not. If it is there for the sole purpose of
> allowing the user to prevent the eeprom driver from taking over
> non-eeprom chips, then the "ignore" module parameter can be used to
> achieve the same effect, faster, plus it is configurable on a
> per-address basis, while the checksum parameter isn't.
I agree, what's wrong with using the ignore stuff instead?
thanks,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-12-09 23:26 UTC|newest]
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2004-12-09 14:45 ` checksum in (i2c) eeprom driver Jean Delvare
2004-12-09 23:17 ` Greg KH [this message]
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2004-12-10 8:42 ` Jean Delvare
2004-12-15 0:57 ` Mark M. Hoffman
2004-12-15 9:17 ` Jean Delvare
2004-12-09 12:53 Jean Delvare
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