On Tue, 22 Jan 2008 22:10:32 +0100, Hans de Goede wrote: > Matt Roberds wrote: >> Hello all! >> >> I recently built a system using an Asus M2N-SLI Deluxe motherboard, >> which has an Analog Devices ADT7475 thermal monitor and fan control >> chip. sensors-detect knows about it but says there is no driver. I've >> been looking through the mailing list archives and found a post from >> Hans de Goede in December with a partial driver (see >> http://lists.lm-sensors.org/pipermail/lm-sensors/2007- December/022169.html >> ). >> >> I downloaded that driver and it built as a module under kernel 2.6.18, >> after commenting out a few lines of code. sensors (from lm-sensors >> 3.0.0) says: >> >> > Hi, > > Yes that Hans de Goede would be me. Unfortunately I'm still waiting for > my Asus M2N-SLI Deluxe to return from the Asus repair center as it broke > down. > > Notice that beside my driver WIP, there also is one written by Jordan > Crouse I just noticed when looking it up in my archive that he hasn't > send it to the list yet, so I've attached it here. Both drivers need > quite some work before being acceptable for mainline inclusion. The one > done by my students is incomplete, and the one done by Jordan Crouse > (attached) needs to have atleast the following issues fixed: > > * remote vcc and vcpp are not valid input names, please see > Documentation/hwmon/sysfs-interface for valid sysfs attr names. > > * You're handling of the alarms is wrong, now a days we have one alarm > file per inpuit, again see: Documentation/hwmon/sysfs-interface > > * Don't call a driver adt74xx even if it will support multiple chips, it > may very well never support all chips matching the xx mask, so instead > just call it after the first support chips, other documentation like the > wiki-page and sensors-detect will show to use this driver for releated > chips. I have some updates for that, but I have been very lazy in sending it out. I'll send it out today, if it will help. Thanks for the kick, Jordan
