Juerg Haefliger wrote: > Hi Eric, > > >> I was very happy to see dme1737 support added, thank you! Now I can get >> all the info out of my compaq sr1710nx cheapo server. :) > > Glad you like it :-) I can finally tell my wife that the time I spent > on the driver wasn't all wasted... I'm impressed; I tried to dislodge a data sheet for this chip from SMSC, with no luck. They don't want us to know our cpu temps it seems! ;-) >> 1.53 seconds to read "0\n" ! :) >> >> Any idea if this is a hardware or software delay? I haven't yet dug >> into profiling the kernel code to see what might be taking so long... > > It's simple: We have to read a lot of registers which we can only get > to via I2C which is veeerrrrryyyyy sloooooowwwwww. Ok, I thought it might be along those lines. Is there any other performance impact to the system while it's waiting for the I2C bus? Thanks, -Eric
