From: khali@linux-fr.org (Jean Delvare)
To: lm-sensors@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [lm-sensors] Support for Fintek F71872F
Date: Sun, 14 May 2006 08:12:17 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060514101217.7a31d211.khali@linux-fr.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4464D0B8.8070203@drzukov.is-a-geek.org>
Hi Thomas,
> > However I am unable to successfully insert the f71805f module for the
> > 2.6.16 kernel. How much work still has to be done to support the F71872F
> > chip? I'd be willing to program the support myself, but I would need a
> > few pointers and the necessary documentation.
>
> Having started playing with i2c a couple of weeks ago, I'd say just give
> it a try yourself: Rebuild your kernel with i2c debugging enabled, and
> then just have a look at dmesg output to see what happens. What I do is
> put a bunch of printk messages in the driver, and just watch to see what
> happens. It isn't hard to figure it out.
That wouldn't work, the f71805f driver is a platform driver, not an i2c
driver.
It's not a bug anyway. As I said in another post, the f71805f driver
simply lacks support for the F71872F chip at the moment, so some
additional code will be needed. Should be easy to do though.
--
Jean Delvare
prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-05-14 8:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-05-12 18:15 [lm-sensors] Support for Fintek F71872F Jure Klakočar
2006-05-12 18:22 ` Thomas Andrews
2006-05-14 8:01 ` Jean Delvare
2006-05-14 8:12 ` Jean Delvare [this message]
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