From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: khali@linux-fr.org (Jean Delvare) Date: Sun, 14 May 2006 08:12:17 +0000 Subject: [lm-sensors] Support for Fintek F71872F Message-Id: <20060514101217.7a31d211.khali@linux-fr.org> List-Id: References: <4464D0B8.8070203@drzukov.is-a-geek.org> In-Reply-To: <4464D0B8.8070203@drzukov.is-a-geek.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: lm-sensors@vger.kernel.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