On Mon, Aug 23, 2004 at 11:42:44PM -0400, Mark M. Hoffman wrote: > Hi Jean: > > (CCs trimmed on purpose) > > * Jean Delvare <khali at linux-fr.org> [2004-08-23 21:52:06 +0200]: > > 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 > > Attached is a quick hack that makes this (testing a driver for h/w you > don't own) a little easier. It would be even more useful if it wrote to > a file instead of spamming all those printks - I'll do that if people > want it. > > You'll probably need to pass force_foo parameters to the chip driver to > get it to attach. Also be warned: if the driver has any polling loops > which wait for some byte/data to change, this bus stub could lock it up. > > Stuff like this probably isn't appropriate for kernel.org (Greg?) Why not? It looks useful to me. Care to send me a patch adding this to the main kernel tree? thanks, greg k-h
