Jean Delvare wrote: > Hi Wolfgang, > > On Wed, 06 Aug 2008 15:19:51 +0200, Wolfgang Grandegger wrote: >> I realized that various HWMON drivers have been converted to new style. >> Has the w83781d been ported as well? Or is somebody already working on it? > > This is one of the two hwmon drivers that have not yet been converted > (the other one is lm78.) I had been delaying them because they are > special (hybrid drivers, supporting both I2C and ISA devices) and also > because there are pending patches for these drivers and I was hoping > that the pending patches could be merged first (but it didn't happen > yet.) If you want to work on either of these drivers, please do. I can > do some testing on both. If you have a particular interest in these > drivers, maybe we can work together. OK. Can you point me to the pending patches? > For a general overview of the conversion of i2c drivers to new-style, > please see: > > http://jdelvare.pck.nerim.net/linux/legacy_i2c_driver.list > > ** means the patch is already upstream, * means that the patch is > available but needs testing and/or review. The driver list might not be > totally up-to-date, I didn't check yet if there have been legacy i2c > drivers added upstream lately. > > My initial hope was to have everything converted in 2.6.28, but now I > suspect that only hwmon and rtc drivers will be completely converted by > then I see. Wolfgang.
