From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jean Delvare Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2011 08:22:58 +0000 Subject: Re: [PATCH] radeonfb: Let hwmon driver probe the "monid" I2C bus Message-Id: <20110113092258.20979268@endymion.delvare> List-Id: References: <20110111162352.5a634e9e@endymion.delvare> In-Reply-To: <20110111162352.5a634e9e@endymion.delvare> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 13 Jan 2011 14:44:53 +1000, Dave Airlie wrote: > On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 2:11 PM, Paul Mundt wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 04:23:52PM +0100, Jean Delvare wrote: > >> Some Radeon cards have an I2C-based thermal sensor chip connected to > >> the "monid" I2C bus. Set the I2C probing class of this bus properly so > >> that hwmon drivers can detect devices on it and bind to them. > >> > >> This closes kernel.org bug #26172. > >> > > The radeon BIOS actually contains a table to tell us what chip is on the bus, > in the KMS driver we read this table and load the appropriate hwmon device, > > There could possibly be other things on this bus than hw monitor devices. I know that, but... > Though radeonfb should be considered mostly dead. ... I doubt anybody is interested in investing that much worktime in radeonfb any longer. -- Jean Delvare