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 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-omap" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
