Hi Martin, Please don't top-post. On Wed, 04 Apr 2012 21:41:08 +0200, Martin Mokrejs wrote: > Hi, > did you Google for it? Looks "libi2c" is already existing. Yes I did. > http://www.rtems.com/ml/rtems-users/2008/march/msg00033.html RTEMS is an operating system on its own. We don't care what libraries they have and what they named them, just as they don't care what libraries Linux has and names them. > http://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=libi2c-dev As you know, Ubuntu is derived from Debian, and I did mention in my original post that Debian had a package named libi2c-dev. Meanwhile Mark Brown explained that this is the development package for an hypothetical libi2c package which doesn't (yet exist.) So I am aware of this one and it is compatible with my effort. > http://opensource.katalix.com/libi2c/ First time I hear of this. They never contacted me (nor the linux-i2c list) about it, and more importantly, it doesn't seem to be packaged by any major Linux distribution. Their API is different from what the kernel and i2c-tools use. I can understand that they developed something given the lack of a proper library for the past 10 years, but they should have discussed it with the community to make it more visible. I'm not saying Katalix is bad, they did work with the community on other topics, but in this specific case they did not, and that's unfortunate. I'm not sure if they still maintain that code, BTW, this seems to be an old page, if I go to http://www.katalix.com, I can't return to that page. I understand that having two libraries by the same name will cause some confusion, but OTOH the parallel implementations and resulting confusion already exist, I'm only making the confusion more formal. > I would also search for the header filenames and invent such names > which will not clash with any existing. Same for "-li2c" or > whatever will apear on the ld line. No, sorry. I'm not going to invent a fancy name to make sure it isn't clashing with something out there. If anyone wanted their code to become the standard Linux i2c library, they should have pushed it to major Linux distributions. Nobody did AFAICS. -- Jean Delvare -- 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
