Re: [PATCH RFC] i2c algo, Add i2c-algo-i801 driver [v1]

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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
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