On Monday 23 August 2004 20:52, Jean Delvare wrote: > Hi all, > > After some time, we finally have a first candidate patch for a lm87 > driver in Linux 2.6. I started from what David sent to me a few days > ago, which I guess is Jeff's work? I reviewed it, reworked it > significantly to comply better with the latest standards of the Linux > 2.6 i2c subsystem, fixed a few things and here we are. > > First of all, I'd like to thank you all for your interest in the lm87 > driver, and hope we'll come to something acceptable to be submitted to > Greg soon now. > Other than a bit of testing and making a nusance of myself asking for this support, none of the credit belongs to me. I have not authored any of the code. The code came from Jeff. > The patch is available here: > http://khali.linux-fr.org/devel/i2c/linux-2.6/linux-2.6.8.1-mm4-i2c-lm87-al >pha1.diff It should apply and work on linux-2.6.8.1-mm1, -mm2, -mm3 and -mm4 > kernels. > I will test this tomorrow morning. > Please let me know who exactly contributed to the patch I started from, > so that everyone gets credited as he deserves. > > Please note that the driver will check that it is called on a > hardware-monitoring classed bus. Make sure the i2c adapter you use > declares itself with .class=I2C_CLASS_HWMON. If not, either change that > (and report if the bus driver is already in the 2.6 kernel tree) or skip > the test in lm87_attach_adapter for now. > > This first patch is untested beyond compilation, as I don't own a LM87 > myself. This is why I rely on you for testing. The more testers there > are, the faster it'll be to get the driver into Greg's tree. Please test > and report how it is working for you. The latest libsensors/sensors from > lm_sensors CVS are mandatory (> July 7th, today prefered), unless you > test the sysfs interface directly, which would be nice as well BTW. > > I'd also be interested by i2cdumps of your LM87s. The detection of the > LM87 is probably correct but could be refined so as to prevent any > misdetection. What command should I issue? Yes I know i2cdump, but what parameters or perhaps how do I work out the parameters? David > > Thanks.
