Re: new device driver features

Around 14 o'clock on Nov 14, Jon Smirl wrote:

> I2C drivers are not very hard to write in user space and they have already all
> been written in the Xfree code. We could start off with the existing user space
> ones and switch to kernel level ones later.

Yeah, as long as it's essentially a separate module that provides 
something essentially identical to the 2.6 kernel API, it would be easy 
enough to use the kernel API where available and fall back to user-mode 
code in other cases.

I'm not quite sure what to do with the existing i2c drivers in the fbdev 
drivers; perhaps create a shared i2c driver for 2.4 and whack those 
drivers into using it?

-keith