Re: Newbie (to ppc), but glad to be here.
On Wed, 2003-08-06 at 19:08, Segher Boessenkool wrote:
> Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> > I suspect we should probably just expose the PMU i2c bus to userland
> > some way and have a userland tool to deal with that, I'm not too fan
> > of doing a kernel driver... I also have not much time.
>
> We _already_ expose it to userland, via the generic PMU
> interface. And *please* don't add an easier-to-use userland
> interface to the PMU IIC bus; it's too easy to lock it up /
> cause other bad interactions, so if userland needs any more,
> a proper driver should be written. We have enough rope
> already :-)
>
> The same applies to the KL and the UNI-N IIC busses.
Both of them are available to userland via normal i2c layer in
linux, but I'd rather avoid having people play with "generic"
drivers like lm_sensors in there indeed...
Ben.
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