I will take care of the w83627hf.c driver. However I wont have time until the weekend. Carlos On Sun, 1 Jul 2007 22:00:05 +0200, you wrote: >Hi all, > >The future libsensors assumes that all hardware monitoring drivers >follow the standard sysfs interface defined in >Documentation/hwmon/sysfs-interface. They all mostly do already, except >for one thing: alarms. Most drivers are still only exposing a single >file with all alarms in a bit-vector, in chip-dependent order. In order >to let the new libsenors display the alarms properly, we must add >individual alarm files to these drivers. For some drivers, fault and/or >beep files need to be added too. > >Here's the current status, to the best of my knowledge. > >Already have individual alarm files: >abituguru.c >coretemp.c >ds1621.c >dme1737.c >f71805f.c >lm63.c >lm83.c >lm85.c >lm90.c >pc87427.c >smsc47m192.c >vt1211.c >w83627ehf.c >w83793.c > >Don't have alarms at all: >ad7418.c >adm1029.c >ams >applesmc.c >atxp1.c >hdaps.c >k8temp.c >lm70.c >lm75.c >max6650.c >smsc47b397.c >w83l785ts.c > >Need to be converted: >adm1021.c >adm1025.c >adm1026.c >adm1031.c >adm9240.c >asb100.c >fscher.c >fscpos.c >gl518sm.c >gl520sm.c >it87.c >lm77.c >lm78.c >lm80.c >lm87.c >lm92.c >max1619.c >pc87360.c >sis5595.c >smsc47m1.c >via686a.c >vt8231.c >w83627hf.c >w83781d.c >w83791d.c >w83792d.c > >As you can see, the list is quite long, so I need help. That's not a >difficult job, but you need chip ship in question to test. > >How to add individual alarm files: > >* Read Documentation/hwmon/sysfs-interface, so that you know what are >the valid names for individual alarm, fault and beep files. > >* Take a look at this patch which adds individual alarm support to 4 >drivers: >http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=2d45771e6ea79f56a7d85e448f702f60ef86c228#patch2 > >* Do the same to your driver. To find out which alarm bit correspond to >what, you can look at the defines used in the current version of >libsensors: >http://www.lm-sensors.org/browser/lm-sensors/branches/lm-sensors-3.0.0/kernel/include/sensors.h?rev=4473 >Or you can look at the datasheet for your chip, but it's likely to take >longer. > >* Test. You can test manually (change the limits and read the alarm >files from sysfs) or you can use the next version of libsensors, which >is in branch "lm-sensors-3.0.0" under SVN: >svn checkout http://lm-sensors.org/svn/lm-sensors/branch/lm-sensors-3.0.0 lm-sensors-3 > >* Submit your patch to the lm-sensors list, I'll review it. > >Thanks,
