On Thu, 03 Dec 2009 21:56:59 +0100, Sven Anders wrote: > 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! Cool. When it's ready, please send it over to the lm-sensors list so that it gets merged. -- Jean Delvare -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-i2c" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
