FYI 2.5.59 contains: Christoph Hellwig <hch at lst.de>: o remove more junk from i2c headers Ky?sti M?lkki wrote: > Finally, i2c CVS is synced with 2.5.58 tree. > > I believe we are ready to submit patches to both 2.4 and 2.5 trees > in a week or so. In the mean time, please hold any non-critical i2c > patches. Most of the 2.4 cleanup done in CVS already applies these. > And some of the header file cleanups applied in 2.5.53+ evidently > break i2c-proc and userland compiles for /dev/i2c-x ... > > You can checkout i2c with "-r lk2-4" to get i2c code for 2.4 tree. > Attached is non-CVS i2c code ported back from 2.5 to 2.4.21-pre3 > for the impatient, to use .owner refcounting. > > As for lm_sensors, CVS head will work for both 2.5 and 2.4 after i2c > patches. Currently CVS compiles but all of PCI probing takes time to > convert. Post to LKML with a list of i2c busses you volunteer to fix. > > Also, assistance on how to fix module refcounting is welcome. > To my understanding, it does not handle client->adapter->owner > correctly now, and it is possible to rmmod adapter while one of its > clients is in use. > > HTH. >
