Hello List Members, I was asked to post this patch here. If the SMBus and I2C block write functions in i2c-dev.h (the version from lm-sensors, not the kernel) would take const buffer pointers, this would allow callers to use const data to be sent via SMB/I2C. Please see the diff below. Index: include/linux/i2c-dev.h =================================================================== --- include/linux/i2c-dev.h (revision 5881) +++ include/linux/i2c-dev.h (working copy) @@ -258,7 +258,7 @@ } static inline __s32 i2c_smbus_write_block_data(int file, __u8 command, - __u8 length, __u8 *values) + __u8 length, const __u8 *values) { union i2c_smbus_data data; int i; @@ -296,7 +296,7 @@ } static inline __s32 i2c_smbus_write_i2c_block_data(int file, __u8 command, - __u8 length, __u8 *values) + __u8 length, const __u8 *values) { union i2c_smbus_data data; int i; Roman -- Roman Fietze Telemotive AG Buero Muehlhausen Breitwiesen 73347 Muehlhausen Tel.: +49(0)7335/18493-45 http://www.telemotive.de -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-i2c" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html