[PATCH] ugly hack to make therm_pm72 work on XServe G5

Benjamin Herrenschmidt benh at kernel.crashing.org
Fri Aug 6 18:09:14 EST 2004


On Fri, 2004-08-06 at 18:04, Harald Welte wrote:
> I actually forgot that small userspace program ;)
>
> It is a total ripoff of the kernel driver and was implemented because
> it's easier to play with i2c from userspace during development.
>
> benh:  Any reason why you implemented your own byte+word read/write
> routines?  Apparently the i2c_smbus routines work quite fine, even from
> userspace...

I don't remember the exact reason, I had some issues, either with the
sensors or the FCU, or maybe it was for mimmicing OF code...

Ben.


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