ok, I get it, I thought it was two at once. So I agree that small mods to lm75.c would be the best way. In addition to the detection fix, he could add a modparm that switches from internal to remote if the BIOS didn't do it. Jean Delvare wrote: > Hi Mark, > > >>since MIC184 has TWO sensors, it should not be added to lm75 IMHO. >>We shouldn't add a second sensor to the lm75 driver. > > > It doesn't really have two sensors. It simply can use an external sensor > *instead of* the internal one. It cannot use both at the same time. It > is certainly possible to design a driver that continuously switches from > internal to external and back, but that would require a clever timing > and I don't think it's worth the effort. The chip is simply not designed > for this use. I invite you to consider all the drawbacks of such a > design (delayed interrupt response to overtemperature, need to have the > same overtemperature and hysteresis temperature for both "channels", > impossibility to know which "channel" caused an alarm/interrupt, and > possibly more bad surprises if we were to really write such a driver). > > Anyway, I don't think that Frank was interested in this - the mic184.c > driver he proposed would only export one set of sysfs files. > > Thanks,
