Re: [lm-sensors] [PATCH] k8temp: Unset driver data in exit_remove

[Andre Prendel <andre.prendel@gmx.de>]

On Wed, May 06, 2009 at 09:54:28AM +0200, Hans de Goede wrote:
> 
> 
> On 05/06/2009 09:36 AM, Jean Delvare wrote:
> > Hi Andre,
> >
> >
> 
> <snip>
> 
> > I'll remember that :) Actually you may want to look at the abandoned
> > tmp401 driver. Hans de Goede worked on it originally but it never made
> > it into mainline. That's a pity because it was almost ready. I seem to
> > remember it needs to be updated due to i2c infrastructure changes, and
> > minor cleanups were needed before I would take the driver into mainline:
> >
> > http://lists.lm-sensors.org/pipermail/lm-sensors/2008-June/023411.html
> > http://lists.lm-sensors.org/pipermail/lm-sensors/2008-August/024024.html
> >
> > Is this something you'd be interested in? If you don't have any
> > supported chip, I can send you chip dumps, which you can feed into
> > i2c-stub to emulate a chip. Or if you are into soldering, you may be
> > able to ask TI for free chip samples.
> >
> 
> Hi Andre,
> 
> Nice to meet you! As Jean said I've been working on a TI tmp401 driver,
> which is like 99% finished. If you're interested in working on this, please
> let me know, I've got a much newer version sitting on my harddisk, as well
> as a wip version which also adds support for the tmp411, so if you want to
> work on this I'll dig them up.

Hi Hans,

nice to meet you too. Yes I'm interested in the source code.

> 
> As Jean said, you can ask TI for samples, or I can mail them to you if you
> prefer, I still have a number of them left, the big question is how good
> are you with a soldering iron? All the samples are smd and have a quite narrow
> pitch.

I'm affraid I'm a dummy with the soldering iron. Nevertheless it
sounds very interesting.

> 
> When you've got a sample, you ofcourse need an i2c adapter to hook it up to, I
> can advice using an i2c-tiny-usb adapter:
> http://www.harbaum.org/till/i2c_tiny_usb/index.shtml

I will read some more about all this stuff.

Thanks for your kindess
Andre

> Regards,
> 
> Hans
> 
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