On Thu, 15 Mar 2012 16:53:44 +0100, Jean Delvare wrote: > For years now, project i2c-tools has been carrying a modified copy of > <linux/i2c-dev.h> for use by user-space applications > accessing /dev/i2c-* device nodes. The modified copy includes parts of > <linux/i2c.h> as well as i2c_smbus_*() inline functions mimicking their > kernel counterparts. > > Why it was done that way, I'm not sure. Maybe to make things easier for > application authors, or maybe just because nobody ever cared to clean > it all up. But what I'm sure of is that the current situation is ugly > and should be cleaned up. Kernel interfaces should be described by > kernel header files, not random user-space tool projects. > > So I have a plan to get rid of <linux/i2c-dev.h> in i2c-tools. This is > the first step of a more ambitious plan to move the inline > i2c_smbus_*() functions to a proper library - they are too large to be > inline functions and recent versions of gcc complain about that.
I have added a page to the wiki, describing the problem and solution: http://www.lm-sensors.org/wiki/I2CTools_4_Plan -- Jean Delvare -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-i2c" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
