Re: add eeprom i2c driver

From: Jan Dittmer (j.dittmer@portrix.net)
Date: Tue Mar 25 2003 - 14:33:45 EST


Greg KH wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 03:42:14PM +0100, Jan Dittmer wrote:
>
>>This adds support for reading eeproms.
>>Tested against latest bk changes with i2c-isa.
>
>
> I'd like to hold off in submitting the i2c chip drivers just yet, due to
> the changes for sysfs that are going to be needed for these drivers.
>
> As an example of the changes necessary, here's a patch against the i2c
> cvs version of the eeprom.c driver that converts it over to use sysfs,
> instead of the /proc and sysctl interface. It's still a bit rough, but
> you should get the idea of where I'm wanting to go with this. As you
> can see, it takes about 100 lines of code off of this driver, which is
> nice.
>
> I'm copying the sensors list too, as they wanted to see how this was
> going to be done.
>
> Comments?
>

Looks good, I'll try to come up with a converted version of via686a
later. Should tidy up a lot.

Jan

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