From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752875Ab0CYNGp (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 Mar 2010 09:06:45 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:9363 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751489Ab0CYNGn (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 Mar 2010 09:06:43 -0400 Message-ID: <4BAB5FF1.7060106@redhat.com> Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2010 14:06:57 +0100 From: Hans de Goede User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.7) Gecko/20100120 Fedora/3.0.1-1.fc13 Thunderbird/3.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alan Cox CC: Giel van Schijndel , Jean Delvare , Jonathan Cameron , Laurens Leemans , lm-sensors@lm-sensors.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4] [RFC] hwmon: f71882fg: Add watchdog API for F71808E and F71889 References: <1269385936-3440-1-git-send-email-me@mortis.eu> <1269385936-3440-2-git-send-email-me@mortis.eu> <1269385936-3440-3-git-send-email-me@mortis.eu> <1269385936-3440-4-git-send-email-me@mortis.eu> <4BA9CF57.4030504@redhat.com> <20100324093651.GG6368@salidar.me.mortis.eu> <4BA9EA5C.9060506@redhat.com> <20100324153550.GK6368@salidar.me.mortis.eu> <20100324155151.2482952f@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> <20100325085450.GA20126@salidar.me.mortis.eu> <20100325104014.GC20126@salidar.me.mortis.eu> <20100325125005.6d58cfaf@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <20100325125005.6d58cfaf@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi Giel, On 03/25/2010 01:50 PM, Alan Cox wrote: > O> Using Alan's patch and the one following the dashed line I can implement >> (and have already done so) a separate watchdog driver for the Fintek >> F71808E. >> >> Should I just ask for this patch to be applied together with Alan's? >> Then submit the new driver? (I'm a bit new to the non-technical aspects >> of Linux kernel development). > > I'd expect to see a submission of three patches I think > > 1. Patch adding the muxed resource support > 2. Patch making the hwmon driver use it > 3. Patch adding the new driver which needs it > > and then we have a few other bits of code that probably should adopt it, > but that is a separate matter and other maintainers can do that bit. > What Alan said :) Although I'm not sure what the proper place is to post this entire set, I guess linux-kernel itself, with lm_sensors in the CC. Regards, Hans