On Sun, Feb 22, 2004 at 10:41:06AM +0100, Jean Delvare wrote: > If everyone reimplements what already exists, the kernel is likely to go > bigger with no benefit. Also, you won't be able to use all user-space > tools that already exist, and will also have to write specific chip > drivers for the chips present on the yosemite bus, although these > drivers (Atmel 24C32 EEPROM and MAX 1619) already exist. > > Please explain to us why you cannot/don't want to use the existing i2c > subsystem. Yupp. While we're at it what should we do with the i2c reimplementations in alsa and dvb?