> Your points about explicit config make a lot of sense; reminds me of > qbus and isa bus where you have to know.
Well, except that on Qbus and ISA, most devices can be probed relatively harmlessly. That is, asking a driver "there might be a device you handle at this address, check it out?" is a reasonable thing to do. There certainly are exceptions, a few cases of devices X and Y such that having device Y's driver probe for a Y at A when there's really an X at A will do something unfortunate to the X. But they are few and rare. As I read thorpej's mail, that's far less true of i2c. /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTML mo...@rodents-montreal.org / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B
