From: Aleksei Mamlin <mamlinav@gmail.com>
To: linux-i2c@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: State of the i2c-piix4 driver
Date: Thu, 12 May 2016 07:53:25 +0000 (UTC) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <loom.20160512T094247-214@post.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20160308151341.48eb3f41@endymion
Jean Delvare <jdelvare <at> suse.de> writes:
>
> 5* The I/O ports used for SMBus configuration and port switching are
> also needed by a watchdog driver, sp5100_tco. Both drivers request the
> region, so the first one wins, and the other driver can't be loaded.
> sp5100_tco was there first, so the changes done to the i2c-piix4 driver
> recently will cause a regression for some users by preventing them
> from using the sp5100_tco and i2c-piix4 drivers at the same time. In
> the long run I guess we will need a helper module to handle this shared
> resource. Unless IORESOURCE_MUXED can be used for that. Either way,
> that's more work than I can put into this before kernel v4.5 is
> released. For the time being, I think we should simply make it
> non-fatal if the I/O ports can't be requested, and continue without
> multiplexing (as before.)
>
Hi Jean
Have you any progress with 5*?
I have the same HP MicroServer G7 as Christian and it would be nice to have
both i2c and watchdog working at same time.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-05-12 7:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-03-08 14:13 State of the i2c-piix4 driver Jean Delvare
2016-03-08 15:05 ` Rudolf Marek
2016-03-08 18:36 ` fetzerch
2016-05-12 7:53 ` Aleksei Mamlin [this message]
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