Jean Delvare wrote: > Hi Hans, > > > The F71805F has them there as well. Strange that the F71806F doesn't. Maybe it does, but the datasheet is wrong / incomplete, in my experience that happens quite often (with Philips being one of the worst offenders). > My f71805f driver doesn't use these registers yet though, so it's not a > problem for now. But certainly something to keep in mind if we ever > implement support for temperature offset registers in this driver. > Thats good news then, but indeed something to keep in mind. > Thanks for doing this datasheet comparison, it might prove useful in > the future. > Your welcome. >> Notice that the identical device id means that sofar sensors-detect has been >> identifying the 71806 as a 71872, and most likely people have been loading and >> using the 71872 driver on this chip too, I assume that the 71872 driver uses >> the temp offset registers, and this could cause some troubles. > > I'm not sure if there already are many F71806F chips in the wild. We > did not have any request to support it, while we did have several > requests to support the F71872F. But the fact that we did report both > as a F71872F so far may explain it in part. > >> Unfortunately I >> haven't been able to find a way in the datasheets to find out which chip we are >> really dealing with. > > As said above, the f71805f driver does not use these offset registers. > If said offset registers are read-only on the F71806F, that would be a > way to differentiate between both chips (arguably ugly, but...) > Yes, but then again the F71806F may have those registers too. > I just updated sensors-detect to mention the F71806FG. I also added > detection for the F71862FG, now that its datasheet is available. And to > be complete, I added an entry for the F71862FG to the Devices page on > the wiki. > Nice. > Now, the f71805f driver (and documentation) would need to be updated to > list the F71806F/FG as supported. Can you please submit such a patch, > or do you want me to do it? > Well since you are the maintainer of the f71805f driver, I think its best and easiest if you do it. Regards, Hans
