Re: [lm-sensors] sensor-detect and non-compliant SMSC Super I/Os

[Hans de Goede <j.w.r.degoede@hhs.nl>]

Juerg Haefliger wrote:
 > All,
 >
 > I looked through a lot of SMSC datasheets the last couple of days with
 > the goal to improve sensor-detect to correctly identify more SMSC
 > Super I/Os. I noticed that some of the chips don't conform to the ISA
 > PNP standard with the device ID register living at a different address
 > (0x0d instead of 0x20). In order to correctly identify those chips, a
 > somewhat ugly (and totally SMSC specific) hack would be necessary.
 > Something like reading from both addresses and then using the value
 > from 0x0d for some of the SMSC chips.
 >
 > I wonder how much value this adds given that none of these Super IOs
 > have HW monitoring capabilities? The only benefit I can see is that
 > the chip is correctly identified and we can flag it as not being a
 > sensor and thus users won't bug us for adding support.
 >
 > Any thoughts, comments, ideas?
 >

I think that if the hack isn't too gross, it would be good to also be able to 
identify those chips.

Regards,

Hans


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