On Sun, Feb 06, 2005 at 01:05:05PM +0100, Jean Delvare wrote: > Hi Aurelien, Hi ! > > Oops. Here is a new patch. > > You will be happy to learn that the patch Greg and I had been working on > is part of Linux 2.6.11-rc3-bk1 and later. This means that the via686a > vs i2c-viapro conflict is now gone. Wow, already in the main tree... That's very nice. > If you still want to add a note about the problem in the FAQ, I'd prefer > it to be in a chip-specific section, or in the Linux-2.6 specific > section, since the problem and solution aren't exactly generic. Ok, i have choosen the Linux-2.6 specific section as the chip-specific section seems to be only for "Bad readings". Please find attached my new patch. Bye, Aur?lien -- .''`. Aurelien Jarno GPG: 1024D/F1BCDB73 : :' : Debian GNU/Linux developer | Electrical Engineer `. `' aurel32 at debian.org | aurelien at aurel32.net `- people.debian.org/~aurel32 | www.aurel32.net -------------- next part -------------- diff -u -d -p -r1.15 lm_sensors-FAQ.texi --- lm_sensors-FAQ.texi 29 Dec 2004 10:21:23 -0000 1.15 +++ lm_sensors-FAQ.texi 6 Feb 2005 18:07:04 -0000 @@ -1266,6 +1266,12 @@ If you would like to port the driver, se Documentation/i2c/porting-clients in the 2.6 kernel tree for help, then send us the ported driver when you are done. + at subsection i2c-viapro and via686a +Until kernel 2.6.11-rc3-bk1, there was a PCI resource conflict between +i2c-viapro (the SMBus driver for VIA bridges) and via686a (the integrated +sensors driver for VIA bridges). This caused the second loaded driver to +silently fail working. So do not load both i2c-viapro and via686a together +unless you have a recent kernel. @node Help, Contribute, Problems, Top @chapter How to Ask for Help
