On Tue, Jul 04, 2006 at 10:09:06AM +0200, Johan Vromans wrote:
> Bruno Ducrot <[email protected]> writes:
>
> > I wanted to provide a real bus access via the EC driver, including
> > the interrupt driven ones.
>
> Yes, that would be the right way to go. But it is a longer term
> solution and AFAIK noone is currently working on it.
Indeed
> In the mean time, several users can benefit from an intermediate
> solution like the one I suggested. Besides, it is not a wrong solution
> per se, it is equally wrong as the ac_read/write routines that are
> exported.
Yes, but I always considered the ec_read/write functions being an hack
in order to support sonypi at first. If it's possible to kill them
and to replace them with the acpi_ec_read|write, well this would be
good IMHO.
> So I still think that exporting the current acpi_ec_read/write would
> be a good thing to so, but I agree it should be marked as an
> intermediate solution.
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.
Cheers,
--
Bruno Ducrot
-- Which is worse: ignorance or apathy?
-- Don't know. Don't care.
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