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Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2008 09:58:29 +0200
From: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
To: "Francis Moreau" <francis.moro@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: qestion about I2C_CLASS_HWMON flag
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Dear Francis,

On Thu, 4 Sep 2008 09:43:10 +0200, Francis Moreau wrote:
> I'm wondering why does this flag exist ?
> 
> Why is a hw monitor device so special so that an I2C bus needs
> a flag to tell the rest of the world that it support it ?

This is a question for the i2c mailing list.

-- 
Jean Delvare