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From: Jean Delvare <khali-PUYAD+kWke1g9hUCZPvPmw@public.gmane.org>
To: Hu Mingkai-B21284 <B21284-KZfg59tc24xl57MIdRCFDg@public.gmane.org>
Cc: i2c-GZX6beZjE8VD60Wz+7aTrA@public.gmane.org
Subject: Re: How to pass board specific info to I2C driver module
Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2008 09:21:25 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081027092125.0192b81c@hyperion.delvare> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CF6163088BDE8747873ADAA4AF922BF258D734-6lxYB4K41cniD3AT8lUqWFjVikpgYyvb5NbjCUgZEJk@public.gmane.org>

Hi Vincent,

On Mon, 27 Oct 2008 10:00:44 +0800, Hu Mingkai-B21284 wrote:
> I'm working on an ADC chip (MCP3021) driver under Linux 2.6.27.
> We used these two chips to monitor the CPU core current and 
> platform current individually, which is converted to voltage as 
> the ADC chip's input.
> As you know, the driver shouldn't contain the board specific info,
> such as, the chip's work voltage, the ratio of voltage and current.
> So how to pass these info to the driver module?
>  
> Here is the way I can think of:
> 1. to use dts file to pass the info to the module.
>     This way make the driver is bound to OF implement.
>  
> 2. to use the module parameter.
>     For different chips, the work voltage and the ratio may be
> different,
>     but the chip uses the same driver.
>  
> Any other idea? Please give me some advice. Thanks a lot.

Once again this question has nothing to do with I2C, so this is the
wrong mailing list. So, once again, please ask on the lm-sensors list
instead.

-- 
Jean Delvare

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-10-27  8:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-10-27  2:00 How to pass board specific info to I2C driver module Hu Mingkai-B21284
     [not found] ` <CF6163088BDE8747873ADAA4AF922BF258D734-6lxYB4K41cniD3AT8lUqWFjVikpgYyvb5NbjCUgZEJk@public.gmane.org>
2008-10-27  8:21   ` Jean Delvare [this message]
     [not found]     ` <20081027092125.0192b81c-ig7AzVSIIG7kN2dkZ6Wm7A@public.gmane.org>
2008-10-27  8:49       ` Hu Mingkai-B21284

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