Hi: (Replying to self) * Mark M. Hoffman <mhoffman at lightlink.com> [2004-10-21 23:21:17 -0400]: > Yes, I'll want to tackle this in stages. The sysfs fixups can come later. > It brings up a point though: if the MUX client is registered "manually" > as we're calling it, what do we do with the sysfs structure? Maybe it > would be better for i2c_lock_adapter to do this: > > 1) force all existing clients to detach > 2) attach the caller client as normal > 3) mark the bus as no-probe and allow no further client attachments To be more clear, what I'm suggesting would be declared like this: int i2c_attach_client_exclusive(struct i2c_client *client); The "unlock" part can be rolled into the normal i2c_detach_client routine. Regards, -- Mark M. Hoffman mhoffman at lightlink.com
