Re: i2c/ smbus question

[Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>]

On Mon, Jan 09, 2006 at 09:58:22AM +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-01-08 at 11:30 +0100, Jean Delvare wrote:
> 
> > The i2c_smbus_write_i2c_block_data wrapper function used to be defined,
> > but was removed in 2.6.10-rc2 together with a couple other similar
> > wrappers [1] on request by Adrian Bunk, the reason being that they had
> > no user back then. I was a bit reluctant at first, but we finally agreed
> > with Adrian to remove the functions, and to reintroduce them later if
> > they were ever needed.
> 
> Argh... Adrian, sometimes I hate you ;-)
> 
> > So, if you need i2c_smbus_write_i2c_block_data(), we can easily
> > resurrect it. See the patch below. I made the new version a bit faster
> > (I hope) than the original by using memcpy, please confirm it works for
> > you.
> 
> Seems to work. Greg, would you mean boucing that to Linus asap (if you
> are ok with it of course) ? I have a pile of patch about to hit him via
> the powerpc merge git tree and I'll "fix" some of the mac drivers in
> there to use that wrapper, so without that patch, g5 won't build ;)

Sure, Jean, care to resend it to me, as it's now lost in my archives
somewhere :)

thanks,

greg k-h