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From: Yu Luming <luming.yu@intel.com>
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To: Johan Vromans <jvromans@squirrel.nl>
Subject: Re: RFC [PATCH] acpi: allow SMBus access
Date: Mon, 3 Jul 2006 09:51:29 +0800
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On Monday 03 July 2006 05:12, Johan Vromans wrote:
> From: Johan Vromans <jvromans@squirrel.nl>
>
> To get battery readings on some laptops it is necessary to interface
> with the SMBus that hangs of the EC. However, the current
> implementation of the EC driver does not permit other modules
> read/write access.

why NOT use ec_read/ec_write?

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Thanks,
Luming