From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Hans de Goede Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2008 08:35:43 +0000 Subject: Re: [lm-sensors] fscpos and fscher drivers Message-Id: <486354DF.80101@hhs.nl> List-Id: References: <20080626090548.3024bab0@hyperion.delvare> In-Reply-To: <20080626090548.3024bab0@hyperion.delvare> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: lm-sensors@vger.kernel.org Jean Delvare wrote: > On Thu, 26 Jun 2008 09:09:34 +0200, Hans de Goede wrote: >> Jean Delvare wrote: >>> Hi Hans, >>> >>> Do you have a plan to phase out the fscpos and fscher drivers? Now that >>> your fschmd driver supports all known FSC hardware monitoring chips, it >>> would be great if we could get rid of the legacy fscpos and fscher >>> drivers to make the configuration, maintenance and support easier. >>> >> Agreed, the reason this hasn't been done until now is because the fscpos and >> fscher drivers support the watchdog function of the fscXXX family whereas my >> fschmd driver doesn't (note the fscpos and fscher drivers do not support the >> watchdog driver through the standard watchdog interface, instead they use >> custom sysfs attr under the hwmon class). > > Ah, I had forgotten about this watchdog issue. This makes the situation > a bit more complex of course. > Actually this has sparked me into looking into the watchdog stuff. So I'm working on adding (proper) watchdog support right now. Regards, Hans _______________________________________________ lm-sensors mailing list lm-sensors@lm-sensors.org http://lists.lm-sensors.org/mailman/listinfo/lm-sensors