Hi Juerg, > > Hi Andrew, > > > On Feb 5, 2008 4:20 AM, Andrew Voznytsa <andrew.voznytsa at gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi Juerg, > > > > In short - it works! > > Very good, thanks for testing. > > > > Relevant outputs are below. Just a few questions - > > would you recommend to use this code in production system (as for me > looked > > like simplified version of previous driver, looks like clean and nice, > but > > is it stable enough)? > > The dme1737 driver is fairly new so it probably hasn't gone through a > lot of user testing. It's likely that there are bugs. However, if you > don't do any fancy things like setting temp limits or programming the > fan controller, the driver will *not* write to the chip but only read > registers and export their values. If the HW is not broken (i.e., it's > always safe to read registers) and there is no interference with other > SW accessing the same chip (like ACPI) that could cause problems, it > should be safe to use it. > > > > Perhaps stupid question but is there any kind of > > 'WHQL' for linux kernel development? > > Err, no. You just did all the QA required :-) I'll submit a patch in > the next couple of days which needs to be reviewed by a fellow driver > author/maintainer and then it's ready for inclusion in the mainline > kernel. That's all it takes. > Feel free to put the driver through some stress testing and report any > issue you find. So ok - I'll setup some monitoring and see how driver works. Many thanks for this feature! Best regards, Andrew Voznytsa
