On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 08:41:45AM +0000, Jonathan Cameron wrote: > On 16/01/13 05:49, Guenter Roeck wrote: > >On Sat, Nov 24, 2012 at 10:18:04AM +0000, Jonathan Cameron wrote: > >>On 11/24/2012 05:27 AM, Guenter Roeck wrote: > >>>Hi all, > >>Hi Guenter, > >>> > >>>What would it take to move the MAX1363 driver out of staging ? > >>> > >>Nothing given it is already out of staging in linux-next (though only has been > >>for about a week) > >> > >>>Background is that I need a hardware monitoring driver for MAX1139, and would > >>>like to avoid using a driver from staging if possible (after all, it might > >>>go away anytime). Another option would be to submit a hwmon driver for it, > >>>but that doesn't seem to be the best approach. > >> > >>The hwmon driver client driver for iio devices is still in staging, but mainly > >>because I haven't had a chance to take a last look at it before posting it to > >>the hmwon list. IIRC you were more or less happy with what went into staging > >>in the first place, so hopefully not too much left to do. > >> > >Jonathan, > > > >can you educate me how to actually use iio_hwmon ? I get it loaded, > >which registers the platform driver, but I have no idea how to instantiate it. > > > http://marc.info/?l=linux-iio&m=132933525705497&w=2 > > [PATCH 6/6] stargate2: example of map configuration for iio to hwmon > example. > Hi Jonathan, In other words, I can not test it on a PC unless I write a driver to instantiate it. Not too helpful :(. It means that iio drivers can not be used / instantiated for hardware monitoring on PCs. Thanks, Guenter -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-iio" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
