From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Guenter Roeck Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2012 03:20:44 +0000 Subject: Re: [lm-sensors] Intel DH55HC Sensors Message-Id: <20120320032044.GA2485@ericsson.com> List-Id: References: <20120314143659.0c1cf55d@ritchie.cs.ubc.ca> In-Reply-To: <20120314143659.0c1cf55d@ritchie.cs.ubc.ca> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: lm-sensors@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 07:18:07PM -0400, Christopher Head wrote: > On Mon, 19 Mar 2012 14:46:03 -0700 > Guenter Roeck wrote: > > > Chris, > > > > I briefly looked into this a while ago, after the HECI (MEI) driver > > was put back into the kernel. Problem is that it is not well > > documented, and it is built around the assumption that it would only > > be used from user space applications. This means one would need to > > understand it enough to 1) port the necessary user space libraries > > into the kernel, 2) modify the MEI driver to support those in-kernel > > libraries, and 3) use the libraries to write a hwmon driver. > > > > Writing the hwmon driver would be straightforward, but the rest is > > just too much for my spare time. > > > > Guenter > > Alright, thanks for the information. One of these days I might take a > peek and perhaps try to hack up a patch, but it won't be any time soon. > Or maybe someone else will first. > I had another quick look. Replace 1) and 2) with "re-write the kernel driver to support non-file accesses". The libraries are not really needed, but the kernel mei driver has file accesses written all over it, so it would require a major rewrite to enable in-kernel access. Guenter _______________________________________________ lm-sensors mailing list lm-sensors@lm-sensors.org http://lists.lm-sensors.org/mailman/listinfo/lm-sensors