Hi Eric, > > 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! ;-) I only got it because the company I work for is under NDA with SMSC even though I told them repeatedly that this is strictly for personal use. > >> 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? Good question, I don't know. That's more a question for the I2C mailing list. Jean? ...juerg > Thanks, > > -Eric >
