Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S266169AbUIVPlK (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Sep 2004 11:41:10 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S266173AbUIVPlK (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Sep 2004 11:41:10 -0400 Received: from rproxy.gmail.com ([64.233.170.199]:11275 "EHLO mproxy.gmail.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S266169AbUIVPk4 (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Sep 2004 11:40:56 -0400 Message-ID: <9e47339104092208403d9de6f4@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2004 11:40:35 -0400 From: Jon Smirl Reply-To: Jon Smirl To: Linux Kernel Mailing List , sensors@stimpy.netroedge.com Subject: Re: [PATCH][2.6] Add command function to struct i2c_adapter Cc: Adrian Cox , Michael Hunold , Greg KH In-Reply-To: <20040922122848.M14129@linux-fr.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <414F111C.9030809@linuxtv.org> <20040921154111.GA13028@kroah.com> <41506099.8000307@web.de> <41506D78.6030106@web.de> <1095843365.18365.48.camel@localhost> <20040922102938.M15856@linux-fr.org> <1095854048.18365.75.camel@localhost> <20040922122848.M14129@linux-fr.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1176 Lines: 23 On Wed, 22 Sep 2004 14:38:46 +0100, Jean Delvare wrote: > Aha, this is an interesting point (which was missing from your previous > explanation). The base of your proposal would be to have several small i2c > "trees" (where a tree is a list of adapters and a list of clients) instead of > a larger, unique one. This would indeed solve a number of problems, and I > admit that it is somehow equivalent to Michael's classes in that it > efficiently prevents the hardware monitoring clients from probing the video > stuff. The rest is just details internal to each "tree". As I understand it, > each video device would be a tree on itself, while the whole hardware > monitoring stuff would constitute one (bigger) tree. Correct? Any DDC solution needs to leave the data visible in sysfs and accessible from user space. I'm trying to move the EDID parsing code out of the kernel. -- Jon Smirl jonsmirl@gmail.com - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/