Jean Delvare schrieb: > Hallo Sven, > > On Mon, 30 Nov 2009 22:30:07 +0100, Sven Anders wrote: > >> Moreover the w83793g hardware sensors driver may already >> accessing the same chip. What is the normal way to deal with this? > > Do not write a separate driver for the watchdog functionality. Instead, > add the functionality to the existing hwmon/w83793.c driver. Otherwise > both features will be mutually exclusive. > > An example of how this can be done is in hwmon/fschmd.c [1] if you want > to take a look. This is an I2C/SMBus device driver as well, so your code > should be very similar in the end. > > [1] http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=blob;f=drivers/hwmon/fschmd.c > > Hope this helps, Yes, thanks! This was the hint I needed. Now I finished the watchdog driver and it's working! Regards Sven Anders -- Sven Anders <anders@xxxxxxxxxx> () Ascii Ribbon Campaign /\ Support plain text e-mail ANDURAS service solutions AG Innstrasse 71 - 94036 Passau - Germany Web: www.anduras.de - Tel: +49 (0)851-4 90 50-0 - Fax: +49 (0)851-4 90 50-55 Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. - Benjamin Franklin
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