From: Johan Vromans <jvromans@squirrel.nl>
To: Bruno Ducrot <ducrot@poupinou.org>
Cc: Johan Vromans <jvromans@squirrel.nl>,
Rich Townsend <rhdt@bartol.udel.edu>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: RFC [PATCH] acpi: allow SMBus access
Date: Tue, 04 Jul 2006 13:44:53 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m24pxxmw5m.fsf@phoenix.squirrel.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060704093510.GG17014@poupinou.org> (Bruno Ducrot's message of "Tue, 4 Jul 2006 11:35:10 +0200")
Bruno Ducrot <ducrot@poupinou.org> writes:
> An intermediate solution would be to use the already existing
> ec_read|write instead of the one you want to use. The original
> SMBus driver used acpi_ec_read because the author wanted to be
> sure that driver will support laptops with more than one EC, but
> he never saw such laptops so far.
Indeed, if the requirement for multiple ECs can be dropped, this
simplifies the problem sufficiently to use the current ec_read/write
functions.
Unless someone comes up with other ideas I suggest to withdraw this
proposal until laptops with multiple ECs hit the market...
-- Johan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-07-04 11:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-07-02 21:12 RFC [PATCH] acpi: allow SMBus access Johan Vromans
2006-07-03 1:51 ` Yu Luming
2006-07-03 8:22 ` Bruno Ducrot
2006-07-03 8:22 ` Bruno Ducrot
2006-07-03 11:14 ` Johan Vromans
2006-07-03 12:51 ` Bruno Ducrot
2006-07-04 8:09 ` Johan Vromans
2006-07-04 9:35 ` Bruno Ducrot
2006-07-04 11:44 ` Johan Vromans [this message]
2006-07-06 13:58 ` Johan Vromans
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