On Wednesday 31 March 2004 08:10, Jean Delvare wrote: > According to David Goodenough: > > 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. > > Great :) > > > 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. > > NSC obviously stands for National Semiconductor, in both the module name > and the e-mail address. They possibly started their driver from one of > Frodo's, since he was the most active developper back then. If the > driver is GPL (and if it is based on Frodo's work, it has to be) then > the best thing to start with would probably be to integrate it into our > CVS tree, so that as many folks as possible can enjoy it. Can you send me the details for connecting to your CVS (read only initially) > > > I have a Microtik board (actually three of them) so I will test the > > revised code when I have done. > > That's fine. As far as I know, porting the bus driver (i2c-nscacb) > should be the easiest part, porting the chip driver (lm87) may require > some more work, but I'll try to help you do that part (mostly by > reviewing your code when it's done). > > > When doing the conversion, is this the best eMail address to ask > > questions to or is there a list? > > This is the best address, since this *is* the mailing-list. Strange that > people often don't get it. Maybe we should advertise it more clearly on > our pages. I looked on the web pages, and could find a link to send to this list, but nothing about how I subscribe to it. Maybe I looked in the wrong place. > > > 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. > > Maybe Debian folks didn't package 2.6.5 because it's not out yet? ;) > > I'll send you the files this evening (GMT+2). That said, in the end > you'll have to submit the drivers in the form of patches against our > most recent tree (which is Greg KH's one, not Linus' one) so you'll > have to download a few kernel patches anyway. I am quite happy building modules outside the kernel, but I would like to build them in "the debian way" so that apt-get does not get confused. > > Thanks.
