lkml.org 
[lkml]   [2008]   [Dec]   [4]   [last100]   RSS Feed
Views: [wrap][no wrap]   [headers]  [forward] 
 
Messages in this thread
/
From
SubjectRe: [PATCH] Add tsc2007 based touchscreen driver.
Date
On Thursday 04 December 2008, Felipe Balbi wrote:
> i2c subsystem has smbus emulation. The special reason is just that it's
> simpler for the driver writer ;-)

I'd have said "more portable", actually. I2C hosts can
do pretty much everything an SMBus host can, but the
converse is not true.

And re i2c_check_functionality() ... yes, use it to make
sure each I2C or SMBus call the driver makes is supported
by the underlying controller.

- Dave



\
 
 \ /
  Last update: 2008-12-04 10:59    [W:0.078 / U:0.368 seconds]
©2003-2020 Jasper Spaans|hosted at Digital Ocean and TransIP|Read the blog|Advertise on this site