Hi Jean, On Friday 18 April 2008 16:10, Jean Delvare wrote: > Hello Laurent, > > On Wed, 16 Apr 2008 13:34:09 +0200, Laurent Pinchart wrote: > > Philips LM75A temperature sensors don't pass the current detection check > > as they return 0xffff when reading unimplemented registers instead of the > > last read value. This patch modifies device detection to accept 0xffff as > > valid values when reading registers 0x04-0x07. > > In fact almost no LM75 clone mimics the original behavior perfectly so > they all need to be forced with a module parameter at the moment. I > have always been reluctant to update the detection code to support them > all, as this would weaken it to a point where about any device at any > of the 8 supported I2C addresses would be picked. > > May I ask on which system you have the Philips LM75A chip? If that's an > embedded system where you will end up using the new-style lm75 driver, > then I'd rather focus on getting this new-style driver ready, instead > of updating the detection code. This is indeed an embedded system. I'm fine with focussing on getting the new-style driver ready. Do you have more comments on David's patches ? He mentionned receiving no feedback on his smbalert# patch. Best regards, -- Laurent Pinchart CSE Semaphore Belgium Chaussee de Bruxelles, 732A B-1410 Waterloo Belgium T +32 (2) 387 42 59 F +32 (2) 387 42 75 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://lists.lm-sensors.org/pipermail/lm-sensors/attachments/20080418/ca339539/attachment.bin
