From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jean Delvare Subject: Re: PMBus support in Linux Date: Sat, 29 May 2010 09:39:29 +0200 Message-ID: <20100529093929.38e03e06@hyperion.delvare> References: <1275063391.2631.137.camel@groeck-laptop> <20100529023401.GB12507@pengutronix.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20100529023401.GB12507-bIcnvbaLZ9MEGnE8C9+IrQ@public.gmane.org> Sender: linux-i2c-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: Wolfram Sang Cc: Guenter Roeck , linux-i2c-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, David Brownell , lm-sensors-GZX6beZjE8VD60Wz+7aTrA@public.gmane.org List-Id: linux-i2c@vger.kernel.org On Sat, 29 May 2010 04:34:01 +0200, Wolfram Sang wrote: > > CCing lm-sensors and David... > > On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 09:16:31AM -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote: > > > does anyone know if there is an effort to add infrastructure for PMBus > > support (or support for specific PMBus devices) to Linux ? > > I found this: > > http://lists.lm-sensors.org/pipermail/lm-sensors/2008-April/022969.html > > Hmm, sitting ontop of SMBus, it makes perfect sense to use i2c-dev (David knows > what he is doing, of course ;)). But having no repo and all, it is hard to > maintain this utility. Is there any chance to pick it up in the kernel-tree? > tools/i2c/ or such? Hmm, it's GPL v3... There is an i2c-tools package for user-space utilities, I see no point to add such code to the kernel tree. -- Jean Delvare