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.
