> > I wasn't there back to these times, but we now use a quick write > > command (which, as you know, doesn't really write anything). A quick > > look at i2c-ibm_iic.c in Linux 2.6.0 shows that they use one-byte > > read instead. > > Not all chips acknowledge the read address. With the i2c-ibm_iic, I > don't see the reason for using one-byte read, if hw could not do > quick write a one-byte read is next best choice. I don't quite follow you there. Is the one-byte read method a good choice or not? Anyway, that's not really a problem if we are going to remove that bus scan from the i2c-ibm_iic driver. Just curious. -- Jean Delvare http://www.ensicaen.ismra.fr/~delvare/
