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These are the updated i2c drivers, also known as the `Simon Vogl' drivers.

Updated means: more updated than the ones found in the current kernels.

If you have used this package before, please read IMPORTANT_CHANGES!

There are basically two kinds of i2c drivers: drivers for busses and drivers
for chips. Both are cut in two, to isolate common parts: bus drivers are
separated into algorithm drivers and adapter drivers, and chip drivers
are separated into `driver' drivers and client drivers.

This package contains all the basic i2c code, as well as a few bus drivers
(both the algorithm and the adapter drivers). There are no real chip
drivers, so on its own it is not very useful. Lots of chip drivers, as
well as more bus drivers and some additional basic code
(for SMBus emulation over i2c) and some i2c debugging tools
are found in the lm_sensors package at http://www.lm-sensors.nu.
Another place at which I2C is used is the video4linux project.

See doc/summary for a description of the drivers in this package.

You can reach the developers of this package at their mailing list, at
linux-i2c@pelican.tk.uni-linz.ac.at.