Date: Sat, 31 Dec 2005 06:36:18 +0100 (MET)
From: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de>
To: Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>
cc: Horst von Brand <vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl>,
       "Bryan O'Sullivan" <bos@pathscale.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
       openib-general@openib.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0 of 20] [RFC] ipath - PathScale InfiniPath driver
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>> >   - 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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