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From: Ian Pilcher <arequipeno@gmail.com>
To: lm-sensors@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [lm-sensors] "Dummy" sensor driver?
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2009 21:43:25 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4AD3A2FD.1090400@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <hb011f$2p0$1@ger.gmane.org>

On 10/12/2009 03:52 PM, Jean Delvare wrote:
> We have a dummy i2c adapter driver, named i2c-stub (written by Mark M.
> Hoffman originally.) You can emulate up to 10 chips on it, supporting
> the basic SMBus transactions most I2C-based hwmon devices use. So, if
> you have a register dump from such a device, you can emulate it on any
> machine. I do that all the times when working on hwmon drivers for
> hardware I don't have.

Perfect!

> For example this works very well with the lm90 driver. If you want
> dumps from lm90-compatible chips, just let me know and I'll send them
> to you. This should also works reasonably well with most National
> Semiconductor and Analog Device chips. Just Winbond chips don't work
> well because they use banks and i2c-stub doesn't have support for that.

Please do send them.  My desktop system has a Winbond chip, so a dump
from it presumably wouldn't do any good.

> I wrote a helper script, which is in recent versions of the i2c-tools
> package, to load dumps to i2c-stub automatically (named
> i2c-stub-from-dump).

Thanks!

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Ian Pilcher                                         arequipeno@gmail.com
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-10-12 21:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-10-12 19:45 [lm-sensors] "Dummy" sensor driver? Ian Pilcher
2009-10-12 20:52 ` Jean Delvare
2009-10-12 21:43 ` Ian Pilcher [this message]
2009-10-13  7:20 ` Jean Delvare

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