How to properly handle several fonctions provided by the Winbond SuperIO chip?

[John D. Hendrickson and Sara Darnell]

John Baldwin wrote:
> On Thursday, June 19, 2014 11:21:59 am Emeric POUPON wrote:
>> Thanks for your answer!
>>
>> I was thinking about calling some parent device functions from the children 
> devices in order to perform IO accesses.
>> But I imagine it would be "better" to expose a kind of bus interface from 
> the main driver?
>> However, I'm not sure the extra work induced is worth it. What do you think?
> 
> I think it's fine to have them call each other directly if they are going to 
> all live in the same module.
> 

just wondering

do you mean fine not to expose a feature ?

or fine the Winbond chip circuit allows the procedure with no problems ?

wow i thought winbond io would have been a done deal.  wasn't that 
released in 1990s ?  (rhetorical)