wok-6.x diff i2c-tools/description.txt @ rev 25541
w3m: fix version
author | Pascal Bellard <pascal.bellard@slitaz.org> |
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date | Fri Mar 10 17:54:21 2023 +0000 (18 months ago) |
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1.1 --- /dev/null Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000 1.2 +++ b/i2c-tools/description.txt Fri Mar 10 17:54:21 2023 +0000 1.3 @@ -0,0 +1,12 @@ 1.4 +The i2c-tools package contains a heterogeneous set of I2C tools for Linux: 1.5 +a bus probing tool, a chip dumper, register-level SMBus access helpers, 1.6 +EEPROM decoding scripts, EEPROM programming tools, and a python module for 1.7 +SMBus access. 1.8 +All versions of Linux are supported, as long as I2C support is included in 1.9 +the kernel. 1.10 + 1.11 +These tools used to be part of the lm-sensors package, but were later split 1.12 +to a separate package. The rationale for that move is that not all hardware 1.13 +monitoring chips are I2C devices, and not all I2C devices are hardware 1.14 +monitoring chips, so having everything in a single package was confusing 1.15 +and impractical.