From: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>
To: lm-sensors@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [lm-sensors] lm75: Convert to new-style I2C driver
Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2008 17:52:03 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200804161052.03649.david-b@pacbell.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200804161434.54335.laurentp@cse-semaphore.com>
On Wednesday 16 April 2008, Jean Delvare wrote:
>
> > Sorry. Is there any plan to support new-style device drivers for PC hardware
> > in the future ?
>
> I have something in mind but it's not clear if it will really happen.
>
> We can't enumerate the I2C/SMBus hardware monitoring chips on PCs as we
> do on embedded platforms, because there are soooo many different PC
> motherboards (some of which cannot even be identified) that we wouldn't
> be able to list them all. So we still have to rely on probing somehow.
Hence my lm75 new-style conversion, supporting both binding styles.
I didn't actually look at that in as much detail as it deserves...
arguably "legacy" binding should be explicitly turned on as a result
of a user mode probe, along the lines of sensors-detect.
- Dave
> However, I agree that switching to new-style i2c devices would be nice.
> So what I have in mind is a dedicated kernel driver that would do the
> probing and would instantiate the (new-style) I2C/SMBus hardware
> monitoring devices.
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2008-04-16 12:34 [lm-sensors] lm75: Convert to new-style I2C driver Laurent Pinchart
2008-04-16 13:30 ` Jean Delvare
2008-04-16 13:49 ` Laurent Pinchart
2008-04-16 14:04 ` Jean Delvare
2008-04-16 17:27 ` David Brownell
[not found] ` <200804161027.49943.david-b-yBeKhBN/0LDR7s880joybQ@public.gmane.org>
2008-05-02 11:10 ` [patch 2.6.25-git] i2c: smbalert# support David Brownell
[not found] ` <200805020410.44723.david-b-yBeKhBN/0LDR7s880joybQ@public.gmane.org>
2008-05-05 5:56 ` [patch 2.6.265-rc1] " David Brownell
[not found] ` <200805042256.49252.david-b-yBeKhBN/0LDR7s880joybQ@public.gmane.org>
2008-09-23 22:32 ` [patch 2.6.27-rc7] " David Brownell
2008-09-23 22:32 ` [lm-sensors] " David Brownell
[not found] ` <200809231532.40083.david-b-yBeKhBN/0LDR7s880joybQ@public.gmane.org>
2008-09-26 1:07 ` Trent Piepho
2008-09-26 1:07 ` Trent Piepho
[not found] ` <Pine.LNX.4.64.0809251728130.7680-3bmvVOk6DZ+DGx/iekXGtrjh7zpefjiS@public.gmane.org>
2008-09-26 2:01 ` David Brownell
2008-09-26 2:01 ` David Brownell
[not found] ` <200809251902.00201.david-b-yBeKhBN/0LDR7s880joybQ@public.gmane.org>
2008-09-27 0:29 ` Trent Piepho
2008-09-27 0:29 ` Trent Piepho
[not found] ` <Pine.LNX.4.64.0809261652040.7680-3bmvVOk6DZ+DGx/iekXGtrjh7zpefjiS@public.gmane.org>
2008-10-17 19:04 ` David Brownell
2008-10-17 19:04 ` David Brownell
[not found] ` <200810171204.54448.david-b-yBeKhBN/0LDR7s880joybQ@public.gmane.org>
2008-10-17 20:43 ` Trent Piepho
2008-10-17 20:43 ` [lm-sensors] [i2c] " Trent Piepho
2008-11-18 8:15 ` Jean Delvare
2008-11-18 8:15 ` [lm-sensors] " Jean Delvare
[not found] ` <20081118091546.421d6b78-ig7AzVSIIG7kN2dkZ6Wm7A@public.gmane.org>
2008-11-18 22:01 ` David Brownell
2008-11-18 22:01 ` [lm-sensors] " David Brownell
[not found] ` <200811181401.34809.david-b-yBeKhBN/0LDR7s880joybQ@public.gmane.org>
2008-11-19 9:51 ` Trent Piepho
2008-11-19 9:51 ` Trent Piepho
[not found] ` <Pine.LNX.4.64.0811190140510.11673-3bmvVOk6DZ+DGx/iekXGtrjh7zpefjiS@public.gmane.org>
2008-11-19 15:16 ` Jean Delvare
2008-11-19 15:16 ` Jean Delvare
[not found] ` <20081119161632.2d0bde9e-ig7AzVSIIG7kN2dkZ6Wm7A@public.gmane.org>
2008-11-20 22:00 ` Trent Piepho
2008-11-20 22:00 ` Trent Piepho
[not found] ` <Pine.LNX.4.64.0811201354310.11673-3bmvVOk6DZ+DGx/iekXGtrjh7zpefjiS@public.gmane.org>
2008-11-20 22:56 ` David Brownell
2008-11-20 22:56 ` David Brownell
[not found] ` <200811201456.36551.david-b-yBeKhBN/0LDR7s880joybQ@public.gmane.org>
2008-11-22 0:55 ` Trent Piepho
2008-11-22 0:55 ` Trent Piepho
[not found] ` <Pine.LNX.4.64.0811211621340.18022-3bmvVOk6DZ+DGx/iekXGtrjh7zpefjiS@public.gmane.org>
2008-11-22 2:58 ` David Brownell
2008-11-22 2:58 ` David Brownell
2008-11-21 8:42 ` Jean Delvare
2008-11-21 8:42 ` [lm-sensors] " Jean Delvare
[not found] ` <20081121094218.34ecd82a-ig7AzVSIIG7kN2dkZ6Wm7A@public.gmane.org>
2008-11-22 6:04 ` Trent Piepho
2008-11-22 6:04 ` [lm-sensors] " Trent Piepho
[not found] ` <Pine.LNX.4.64.0811212122370.18022-3bmvVOk6DZ+DGx/iekXGtrjh7zpefjiS@public.gmane.org>
2008-11-22 10:13 ` Jean Delvare
2008-11-22 10:13 ` [lm-sensors] " Jean Delvare
[not found] ` <20081122111340.0bfc2c05-ig7AzVSIIG7kN2dkZ6Wm7A@public.gmane.org>
2008-11-22 20:28 ` Trent Piepho
2008-11-22 20:28 ` [lm-sensors] " Trent Piepho
[not found] ` <Pine.LNX.4.64.0811221055470.18022-3bmvVOk6DZ+DGx/iekXGtrjh7zpefjiS@public.gmane.org>
2008-11-23 21:45 ` Jean Delvare
2008-11-23 21:45 ` [lm-sensors] " Jean Delvare
2008-11-19 13:57 ` Jean Delvare
[not found] ` <20081119145712.1abaa63f-ig7AzVSIIG7kN2dkZ6Wm7A@public.gmane.org>
2008-11-19 18:08 ` David Brownell
2008-11-21 14:18 ` Jean Delvare
[not found] ` <20081121151808.324ca78c-ig7AzVSIIG7kN2dkZ6Wm7A@public.gmane.org>
2008-11-21 16:24 ` David Brownell
[not found] ` <200811210824.55601.david-b-yBeKhBN/0LDR7s880joybQ@public.gmane.org>
2008-11-21 19:22 ` Jean Delvare
[not found] ` <20081121202223.0261fb9c-ig7AzVSIIG7kN2dkZ6Wm7A@public.gmane.org>
2008-11-21 21:54 ` David Brownell
[not found] ` <200811211354.51501.david-b-yBeKhBN/0LDR7s880joybQ@public.gmane.org>
2008-11-22 9:03 ` Jean Delvare
[not found] ` <20081122100344.61cf42b7-ig7AzVSIIG7kN2dkZ6Wm7A@public.gmane.org>
2008-11-22 9:48 ` David Brownell
2008-04-16 17:52 ` David Brownell [this message]
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