> I haven't had much time to work on sensors stuff lately, but your > offer is interesting... not least because I recognize your company > from a couple messages to the Philly LUG and because I live relatively > close to Exton myself. > > I took a quick look at the PC87372 datasheet - that combined with Jean > Delvare's recent work on similar NatSemi chips should make for a > pretty straightforward driver. Agreed. Left apart the fact that the PC87370 family chips uses 16-bit values for fan speed measurement, which is something new (and a good thing IMHO since it solves clock divider issues), they look rather similar to the PC87360 family (up to 364). There is another chip in this family: the PC87373. Looks like an improved 372, and compatible. It has one more fan monitoring channel (3 instead of 2) and 3 PWM outputs, which means that it is functionally equivalent to the PC87364 (as far as fan speed control and monitoring is concerned). We would probably want to have a single driver for the PC7370 family, much like we did for the PC87360 family. I just added support for the PC87373 to sensors-detect, and have been updating our "New Drivers" page as well. One important point would be to know for which kernel Mitchell is interested in a driver. We will probably end up in having a driver for both the 2.4 and the 2.6 kernel, but we will have to start with either. For information, my PC87360 family driver is for 2.4 only at the moment. -- Jean Delvare http://khali.linux-fr.org/
