Re: [PATCH 0 of 20] [RFC] ipath - PathScale InfiniPath driver

Jan Engelhardt
2005-12-31T05:36:38Z

>> > - Someone asked for the kernel's i2c infrastructure to be used,but
>> > our i2c usage is very specialised, and it would be more of a mess
>> > to use the kernel's
>>
>> Problem with that is that if everybody and Aunt Tillie does the same,
>> the kernel as a whole gets to be a mess.
>
>ALSA does the exact same thing for the exact same reason. Maybe an
>indication that the kernel's i2c layer is too heavy?

Sounds like a discussion a while back why jfs/xfs/reiser3/reiser4 all have
their own journalling - compared to ext3-jbd.

Jan Engelhardt
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