On Sun, 27 Jun 2004, Jean Delvare wrote: <snip> > With your method, the user application will be told that some of the > values are wrong, but not which ones. So every value will have to be > ignored. Second, every application will have to do it. I guess that the > application will return the old value instead in this case, which means > it'll have to remember it. All in all you want to do at the chip level > in user-space what my method (as implemented in the w83l785ts driver) > does at feature level in kernel-space, so it's finer grained and not > every application has to handle it. Since our chip drivers already cache > the old values, the amount of additional code needed is low. > > Please take a look at what is done in w83l785ts and tell me why it > woudln't solve you problem, if it actually doesn't. > Just took a look, and that seems very reasonable. If I did this in the LM87 driver would this be an acceptable patch? I still would like some way of notifing user space of such an error, but if I had too, I could follow the syslog and get this (hackish, but it would work). OTOH, if I took the aproach of the w83l785ts (what a name (-;), but yet also added an error proc entry so that a user space app could (if they choose) detect the error would this be a bad thing? Thanks...james > Thanks. > >
