Subject: Re: SMBus implementation
To: Jared D. McNeill <jmcneill@invisible.ca>
From: Allen Briggs <briggs@wasabisystems.com>
List: tech-kern
Date: 10/28/2005 22:33:27
On Fri, Oct 28, 2005 at 09:45:10PM -0300, Jared D. McNeill wrote:
>  1. Allow 'addr' to be optional; regular I2C devices may fail to attach
> if unspecified.

What are the downsides to this?  This seems like the right approach
to me.  So an smbus-compliant device would attach to either a regular
I2C bus with an explicit address or to smbus where the smbus enumeration
would fill in the address.

-allen

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