From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Brownell Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2008 17:52:03 +0000 Subject: Re: [lm-sensors] lm75: Convert to new-style I2C driver Message-Id: <200804161052.03649.david-b@pacbell.net> List-Id: References: <200804161434.54335.laurentp@cse-semaphore.com> In-Reply-To: <200804161434.54335.laurentp@cse-semaphore.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: lm-sensors@vger.kernel.org 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. _______________________________________________ lm-sensors mailing list lm-sensors@lm-sensors.org http://lists.lm-sensors.org/mailman/listinfo/lm-sensors