[lm-sensors] W83793 driver

[ymu@winbond.com (Yuan Mu)]

Hi Rudolf,
> 
>> I have not send any news about w83793 driver because we met a problem --
>> the system always auto reboot even if
>> w83793 driver not loaded :(
>> Now they think the reason is the cpu fan is not fixed on the MB, and i
>> will try to make the driver work on
>> other version of kernels...
> 
> Well you may try to compile Machine check excpetion support and thermal
> throttling interrupt support. Then you will know if it has some thermal problems
> or not.
> 
> Well maybe you can do that without a hardware. Check the i2c-stub driver.
> 
> If we would create more inteligent i2c-stub driver that supports banks, then we
> can emulate this i2c chip with it. (This may work because registers are either
> RO/RW no special behaviour mostly) With the emulation I mean that when you write
> something to register it will be there.
> 
> The idea is following:
> You need to dump all chip banks with i2cdump command. Then the driver i2c-stub
> should be updated to support different banks. I could do it and test it on the
> W83792d hardware machine if we are willing to go this direction.
> 
Sounds interesting, i think we do not need to do this now since the machine did not
reboot for 3 days, maybe the reason is they use a aeroengine as the cpufan...
I will dig what you said after finish the schedule about 793 :)
Now I got it work on FC5 and FC4, but FC3 met the same problem as i met before,
maybe i801 driver missing ICH7 PCI ID, and i'm trying to make it work :(

>> Could you do me a favor to review the attached w83793 driver? i think i
>> must fix the bugs before do the backport.
> 
> I will just do a "quick" review later today and send you the results. I have in
> my queue also VT1211 driver, hopefully I can do both today or in near future.
> 

Thanks, and later a 2.4 version :p

-- 
Best Regards
Yuan Mu


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