On sybyte and max1617 we should try and find the authors and bring them into the fold. On you moving on, hopefully you can find 1-2 hours a week for us which would still qualify you as "active"! We've appreciated your energy and enthusiasm (and new ideas) over the recent months, especially as it came when I was running out of all of those... Any proposal for how to proceed with the 2.4 patch? Without you to generate a 2.8.1->2.4.23 patch, what should we do? And if you don't mind, what are you going to be doing for a living? thanks again mds Jean Delvare wrote: > Hi all, > > I just finished updating my installation guide to support the new 2.4.22 > kernel. > > I noticed that new I2C drivers exist there: i2c-sibyte (plus > i2c-algo-sibyte) and i2c-max1617. Why they end up there without us even > hearing about it is a complete mystery to me. The max1617 driver is > crappy (polling + working only with the sibyte bus) and completely > useless since we already support that chip for years. The bus driver > probably should have been built into a single module. And none of these > modules will even compile since they use I2C IDs that are not defined. > > My 2.4.22 patch simply wipe them out. I can't understand how they were > accepted into the main kernel tree. I couldn't find anything related to > them in the kernel changelog nor in LKML archives. I feel like we should > complain about that, but unfortunately I don't have time for that right > now. Greg, you have more contact with the kernel people than any of us > here, do you have any information we don't have? > > I am taking a new (well...) job tomorrow. At last :) I'm more than > pleased, but you have to understand that this also means the end of my > active participation to the LM Sensors project. Don't worry, I won't > leave the project completely and within a few months I hope I'll have > some time left again to contribute. But I won't spend 6 hours a day on > it as it has been the case for the last few months. BTW, I'd like to > thank you all very much for that. I've learned much here, and it also > prevented me from falling into the laziness :) > > See you later. >
