Hi David, On Thu, 15 Feb 2007 16:03:13 -0800, David Brownell wrote: > The hwmon subsystem registers itself excessively late when it's not linked > as a module. That can cause problems when multifunction chips, that happen > to have hwmon capabilities and live outside the hwmon subdirectory, need to > initialize earlier than on various platforms. > > This patch makes the hwmon subsystem code register itself appropriately early: > as a subsystem, like other subsystems. This patch is already in my tree and planned for inclusion in kernel 2.6.21. I asked Linus to pull the hwmon updates (including this one) from my tree two days ago but he did not yet. I'll ask him again tomorrow if needed. Thanks, -- Jean Delvare
