Jean Delvare wrote: > Hi Krzysztof, > Well, user support to start with, both on this mailing list and > http://www.lm-sensors.org/report . Some tickets are pretty simple, for > example everyone should be able to solve #2208. And review or testing > of any patch posted to the list, that's always welcome. > I may try fixing them when I do not have any other task at hand (read: I wait for patches accepted in other areas: sparc/fbdev). > You can also test 2.6.22-rc2 or later on your systems and confirm that > there are no regressions concerning lm-sensors. > Fine. Unfortunately, I can do this easily only on two computers (A and B, see below). > If you tell us which drivers you can test, I can also look at these > drivers for needed cleanups. For example lots of drivers are still > using ugly macros instead of "dynamic" sysfs attributes so there is > room for improvement. > I have these three machines: A. Compaq AP550: i82801AA + dual ADM1022 (thmc50 driver) = 5 temperatures and 2 fans. There is also some LPC chip but it is not used I suppose (no other fans). B. laptop: sis630 + max1617 (adm1021? driver) + unknown ITE chip (id: ea19). I got 2 temperatures (CPU & MB) but no fan control. I suppose this ITE chip controls the fan (do you know where I can find manual for it?). C. White box P3: piix4 + as99127f rev 2. This one is my wife's so the access is more limited. > Then we have a number of big projects in progress at the moment: > > * Conversion of i2c-isa-based drivers to platform drivers. Six drivers > remain to be converted. w83627ehf is handled by David Hubbard and is > almost done, it87 and pc87360 are supposedly handled by Corentin Labbe > and Jim Cromie respectively, but I didn't see anything yet. vt8231, > sis5595 and via686a are PCI-based, how we convert them depends on > possible changes to the pci subsystem so I was delaying them a bit, but > we want them in 2.6.23 so I will have to decide quickly. So if you have > access to a device supported by any of these 6 drivers, you could help > with the conversion, either doing it yourself or reviewing or testing. > Sorry, I do not have any of them. > * Addition of individual alarm files to all hardware monitoring > drivers. A small number of drivers are already converted but there are > still many left. Individual alarm files are required for the future > libsensors. The naming scheme for these files is described in > Documentation/hwmon/sysfs-interface. To figure out the bit mapping of > the alarms, you need to refer to either the datasheet or the 2.4 driver > (in lm-sensors, under kernel/chips). > I can add them for the hardware I have. > * We're also working on the new libsensors in branch "3.0.0" of > lm-sensors SVN. The new version scans sysfs for supported files > automatically so you no longer need to add support for every new > driver. Help is needed with reviewing the new code, and testing how it > works with as many drivers and devices as possible. Hans de Goede > posted about this some times ago and didn't receive any answer. > I can test it with the hardware I have. > Oh, and if you have experience with writing drivers for serial (RS232) > devices, please let me know, I am trying to write such a driver for an > evaluation module but am going nowhere. > I do not know how deep knowledge you need. Kind regards, Krzysztof
