[lm-sensors] Question on platform drivers

[khali@linux-fr.org (Jean Delvare)]

Hi Juerg,

> I rewrote the vt1211 driver to implement it as a platform driver but
> now sensors doesn't see it anymore. The chip is registered at
> /sys/devices/platform/vt1211.24576 but sensors (2.10.0) reports:
> Can't access procfs/sysfs file
> Unable to find i2c bus information;
> For 2.6 kernels, make sure you have mounted sysfs and libsensors
> was compiled with sysfs support!
> For older kernels, make sure you have done 'modprobe i2c-proc'!
>
> SYSFS support is compiled into libsensors and kernel version is
> 2.6.16-rc3-mm1.

Did you register your driver with the hwmon class? libsensors scans
/sys/class/hwmon for hardware monitoring chips. If you device doesn't
show up there, it won't be found.

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Jean Delvare