Manu Abraham wrote:
> Michael Krufky wrote:
>
>   
>> Manu,
>>
>> You can go on and on about how probing is wrong -- I already agree with you 
>> in that respect.  Regardless, the saa7115 driver does this probe, and this 
>> will not change until after the new i2c methods are implemented in the video 
>> decoder i2c_client modules.
>>
>> I haven't looked at the Mantis code, but...  if you don't need to use any of 
>> the preexisting i2c client modules that attach via probing, then just remove 
>> I2C_CLASS_TV_DIGITAL from the i2c_adapter->class from within the Mantis 
>> driver.  This will prevent any probes from occurring on your device.
>>
>>     
>
> Seems like you've taken it on a personal level.
>
>   
There was nothing personal in what I've written -- I am simply trying to
explain something.
> There's nothing wrong with the Mantis.
> Folks have become more used to fixing the working devices, rather than
> fixing the broken ones.
You can disable probes in the Mantis driver, using the recommendation
that I made above!!!

I'm not saying that anything is wrong with Mantis -- I am merely stating
that since Mantis doesn't use probed i2c clients, that Mantis should
simply disallow such probing.


What can be simpler than that?

-Mike

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