Re: [PATCH] i2c-i801: Don't probe for slaves on IDF channels

[Hans de Goede <hdegoede-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>]

Hi,

On 05/10/2011 04:08 PM, Jean Delvare wrote:
> I don't know if Fujitsu is ever going to produce Patsburg-based
> machines, but if they do, I'd rather not probe the secondary (IDF)
> SMBus channels. At least not until we have a good reason for doing so.
>
> On a side note, I'm not even sure if it is right to enable detection
> of HWMON and DDC devices on the IDF channels. Time will tell...
>
> Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare<khali-PUYAD+kWke1g9hUCZPvPmw@public.gmane.org>
> Cc: Hans de Goede<hdegoede-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
> CC: David Woodhouse<David.Woodhouse-ral2JQCrhuEAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
> ---
> Hans, David, what do you think?

Not probing for the FSC devices on the idf channel sounds reasonable
to me. Note that Fujitsu has moved to using super io chips for hwmon
now instead of their own i2c solutions, so for newer motherboards
there aren't any of these i2c chips present at all.

Regards,

Hans