On Wednesday 16 April 2008, Jean Delvare wrote: > > > Sorry. Is there any plan to support new-style device drivers for PC hardware > > in the future ? > > I have something in mind but it's not clear if it will really happen. > > We can't enumerate the I2C/SMBus hardware monitoring chips on PCs as we > do on embedded platforms, because there are soooo many different PC > motherboards (some of which cannot even be identified) that we wouldn't > be able to list them all. So we still have to rely on probing somehow. Hence my lm75 new-style conversion, supporting both binding styles. I didn't actually look at that in as much detail as it deserves... arguably "legacy" binding should be explicitly turned on as a result of a user mode probe, along the lines of sensors-detect. - Dave > However, I agree that switching to new-style i2c devices would be nice. > So what I have in mind is a dedicated kernel driver that would do the > probing and would instantiate the (new-style) I2C/SMBus hardware > monitoring devices.
