Re: RFC [PATCH] acpi: allow SMBus access

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Bruno Ducrot <[email protected]> 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


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