Ok. I'm willing to give this a shot. It'll be for kernel 2.6.0-test11. Is it enough to just copy the vt1211 file from the lm_sensors package and modify it as described in you patches? Regards /Alexander >> Great job on the sensors package, I've had much use of it. Currently >> I'm building a small UGV (unmanned ground vehicle) and I'm using >> lm_sensors to monitor it's state. >> >> My problem is that I was forced to move to kernel 2.6 to get the >> wireless lan card working properly. Unfortunatly there is no support >> for the VT1211-super IO chip in that kernel. >> >> Is there a patch for it? > > No, there isn't. If you are wanting to port that driver to 2.4, you are > very welcome. I have been writing a guide on how to do this. Get the > following patches: > http://www.ensicaen.ismra.fr/~delvare/devel/i2c/linux-2.6/linux-2.6.0-test9-i2c-doc-porting-clients.diff > http://www.ensicaen.ismra.fr/~delvare/devel/i2c/linux-2.6/linux-2.6.0-test9-i2c-doc-sysfs-interface.diff > http://www.ensicaen.ismra.fr/~delvare/devel/i2c/linux-2.6/linux-2.6.0-test9-i2c-doc-writing-clients.diff > And apply them to your 2.6 kernel tree. Once your documentation is > up-to-date, you should be able to start working. > > Porting drivers isn't really hard, although it helps a lot if you have > already written such a driver. Feel free to ask questions here. > > -- > Jean Delvare > http://www.ensicaen.ismra.fr/~delvare/ >
