Jean Delvare wrote: > Hi Hans, hi Milton, > <snip> >> One could make a superio driver, and create sub-devices for the IR, >> I2C, floppy, parallel, etc >> nodes. > > There have been proposals to do this, and this would indeed be a very > good idea, but unfortunately nobody took the time to implement this > properly, push it upstream and volunteer to maintain it. The problem is > that you don't need just a "driver", but a new subsystem, that needs to > be designed and maintained. > Well, I believe there have been some lightweight superio locking coordinator patches been floating around on the lm_sensors list, and I have reviewed them and then a new version was done with my issues fixed. I kinda liked the proposed solution there, it was quite simple, moved all the generic superio stuff into generic superio code, and added locking for super io access from multiple drivers, what ever happened to those patches? If were to start using those, we could actually do a request region and then never release it, as things should be. Regards, Hans
