From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932217AbWGDLo6 (ORCPT ); Tue, 4 Jul 2006 07:44:58 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932219AbWGDLo6 (ORCPT ); Tue, 4 Jul 2006 07:44:58 -0400 Received: from smtp-vbr2.xs4all.nl ([194.109.24.22]:48398 "EHLO smtp-vbr2.xs4all.nl") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932217AbWGDLo5 (ORCPT ); Tue, 4 Jul 2006 07:44:57 -0400 To: Bruno Ducrot Cc: Johan Vromans , Rich Townsend , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: RFC [PATCH] acpi: allow SMBus access References: <17576.14005.767262.868190@phoenix.squirrel.nl> <20060703082217.GB17014@poupinou.org> <20060703125156.GD17014@poupinou.org> <20060704093510.GG17014@poupinou.org> From: Johan Vromans Date: Tue, 04 Jul 2006 13:44:53 +0200 In-Reply-To: <20060704093510.GG17014@poupinou.org> (Bruno Ducrot's message of "Tue, 4 Jul 2006 11:35:10 +0200") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.1006 (Gnus v5.10.6) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Bruno Ducrot 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