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From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
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Subject: Re: Writing a driver for a legacy serial device
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On Thursday 21 June 2007, Jean Delvare wrote:
> I2C bus drivers have to be implemented in the kernel, so user-space
> isn't an option for me.

Well, you could have an i2c_algorithm that exports a character device
node to user space, and then have a trivial user application that
simply relays between that and the serial port.

It's probably not much different to what you have in the end though.

	Arnd <><
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