Re: Need help: Watchdog-driver over smbus (i2c)

[Sven Anders <anders-3bOZC6EutKuELgA04lAiVw@public.gmane.org>]

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Jean Delvare schrieb:
> Hallo Sven,
> 
> On Mon, 30 Nov 2009 22:30:07 +0100, Sven Anders wrote:
>
>> Moreover the w83793g hardware sensors driver may already
>> accessing the same chip. What is the normal way to deal with this?
> 
> Do not write a separate driver for the watchdog functionality. Instead,
> add the functionality to the existing hwmon/w83793.c driver. Otherwise
> both features will be mutually exclusive.
> 
> An example of how this can be done is in hwmon/fschmd.c [1] if you want
> to take a look. This is an I2C/SMBus device driver as well, so your code
> should be very similar in the end.
> 
> [1] http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=blob;f=drivers/hwmon/fschmd.c
> 
> Hope this helps,

Yes, thanks! This was the hint I needed.
Now I finished the watchdog driver and it's working!

Regards
 Sven Anders

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