[openib-general] Re: [PATCH 0 of 20] [RFC] ipath - PathScale InfiniPath driver

[Jan Engelhardt]

>> >   - Someone asked for the kernel's i2c infrastructure to be used,but
>> >     our i2c usage is very specialised, and it would be more of a mess
>> >     to use the kernel's
>> 
>> Problem with that is that if everybody and Aunt Tillie does the same,
>> the kernel as a whole gets to be a mess. 
>
>ALSA does the exact same thing for the exact same reason.  Maybe an
>indication that the kernel's i2c layer is too heavy?

Sounds like a discussion a while back why jfs/xfs/reiser3/reiser4 all have 
their own journalling - compared to ext3-jbd.


Jan Engelhardt
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