On Tuesday 30 March 2004 19:52, Jean Delvare wrote: > FYI, Frodo isn't working on the Linux i2c stuff for a while. He simply > forwarded your mail to us. We'll try to help. > > > I recently came across your i2c-nscacb.c module which I need to use > > with a Microtik embedded board. I have version 26, dated 4/09/03, and > > this is a 2.4 kernel version. > > > > I need to work with a 2.6 kernel, and if you have a later version. I > > also need the lm87 chip module which I notice is also yours. > > Alternatively if you do not have such a version, would you like the > > version that I would then create in case anyone asks for the future? > > > > Is there any reason why these modules have not appeared in the regular > > kernels? Do you need "user" support for such inclusion, I would be > > happy to help if I can in any way. > > I never heard of the i2c-nscacb driver. Google doesn't provide much > information. In any case that's not one of our drivers, so it's unlikely > we can help. > > As for the lm87 driver, it hasn't been ported to Linux 2.6 yet. Porting > chips represents much work, and we are doing our best with the help of > various contributors, but still this is a rather slow process. You are > the second person to ask for the lm87 driver, but nobody has volunteered > to port it so far. If you want to give it a try, I recommend that you > read Documentation/i2c/porting-clients and > Documentation/i2c/sysfs-interface as found in the Linux 2.6.5-rc1 (and > later) tree. It's definitely easier to port a drivers for which you have > a chip to test on. Thanks for your note. I am quite happy to try to get the lm87 driver to work, and I will send it to you when I have done so. The Microtik (routerboard.com) boards use both of these modules, and they found the i2c-nscacb module from somewhere, and it contains the name James.Mundermaney at nsc.com as the author in the header comments. Frodo's name however appears as the MODULE_AUTHOR. I have a Microtik board (actually three of them) so I will test the revised code when I have done. When doing the conversion, is this the best eMail address to ask questions to or is there a list? I am a Debian user, and so currently I do not have 2.6.5 as they have not packaged it yet. I am using 2.6.4. Could you email me the two files you mentioned. Regards David
