Hi Curt, On Wed, 21 Mar 2007 01:27:48 -0500, Curt Blank wrote: > Ok, I answered my own question, yes I can backport the w83627ehf driver > from 2.6.21 to 2.6.16. > > If anyone is interested I put the patches here: > > http://www.curtronics.com/patches/ > > Not bad for one nights work. > > Below is the living proof. The chip ID reported by the W83627DHG on this > MB was different then what the 2.6.21 w83627ehf code looked for so now > it looks for both. There are 4 fans connected to this MB but only 3 are > showing up, the 4th is a MSI installed fan on the Northbridge chip. > Maybe I can't see that one, I don't know at this point. I have to > validate the voltages also, they don't look quite right. Two comments about this patch: 1* You didn't have to convert the semaphores to mutexes. This is a kernel-wide change that happened at one point in time, and is not related with the W83627DHG support at all. Without that change, your patch will be smaller. 2* You do not need to change the device ID. If you look at the code, you'll see that we do explicitely mask out the lower bits, because they are _known_ to change depending on the exact chip revision. So the original code should work just fine for you too. -- Jean Delvare
