On Wed, 9 Apr 2014 18:58:12 +0000, Matthew Garrett wrote: > On Wed, 2014-04-09 at 20:56 +0200, Jean Delvare wrote: > > Hi Matthew, > > > > > > These systems simply don't safely support OS-level i2c access. > > > > But people need that. And they have been for almost a decade. It's > > about time that hardware vendors realize that. Yes, I mean Intel, > > amongst others. > > There is no safe way to do it. If the user is happy to accept the > inherent dangers, the user can pass the kernel parameter. Oh, there is. There always is. It would just take a few engineers, an equal amount of chairs and pencils, a table and a few sheets of paper. There's no technical reason why this problem can't be solved. -- Jean Delvare SUSE L3 Support -- 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
