On Sun, 19 Nov 2006 19:48:24 -0800, David Hubbard wrote: > This is a summary of a conversation on irc.freenode.net #linux-sensors > > Jean Delvare: > Looking at the w83627ehf driver again, I see that it is currently > based on i2c-isa, which I want to get rid of. Also, i2c-isa drivers > are a bit tricky as they use i2c structures all around the place > without a good reason. An intermediate step would be to convert it to > a platform driver. So I suggest the following plan: > 1. Add support for the DHG chip. > 2. Convert the driver to a platform driver. > 3. Work on a cleaner super-io implementation. > > Known good platform drivers are abituguru, f71805f, hdaps, pc87427 and > vt1211, but abituguru and hdaps are not super-I/O chips so they are > not good examples for you. This leaves you with 3 drivers to look at. > I'll need to convert the it87 driver to a platform driver too someday. > I could do it at the same time you do yours, so that we can share our > efforts. > > David Hubbard: > #3 is the point where KMentors might be useful. Also discussed a > different plan where a separate patch would change the i2c-isa device > name to w83627dhg when that chip is detected. That plan is no good, > since it would break userspace compatibility. The device name should > be set in the same patch which adds DHG support. > > Jean, feel free to correct/add if necessary. Sounds like a perfect summary of our conversation, I don't have anything to add :) -- Jean Delvare
