On Tue, Jul 04, 2006 at 10:09:06AM +0200, Johan Vromans wrote: > Bruno Ducrot <ducrot@xxxxxxxxxxxx> 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. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
