Hi Jean, Thanks for your comments; pl see below.. On Wed, 2008-11-12 at 14:25 +0100, Jean Delvare wrote: > My own review, for the parts I can comment on: > > > diff -uprN -X a/Documentation/dontdiff a/Documentation/hwmon/lm70 b/Documentation/hwmon/lm70 > > --- a/Documentation/hwmon/lm70 2008-10-10 03:43:53.000000000 +0530 > > +++ b/Documentation/hwmon/lm70 2008-11-12 12:17:21.000000000 +0530 > > @@ -25,6 +25,10 @@ complement digital temperature (sent via > > driver for interpretation. This driver makes use of the kernel's in-core > > SPI support. > > > > +As a real (in-tree) example of this "logical SPI protocol driver" interfacing > > +with a "physical SPI master controller" driver, see drivers/spi/spi_lm70llp > > +and it's associated documentation. > > Spelling: its. Done. > > + > > Thanks to > > --------- > > Jean Delvare <khali at linux-fr.org> for mentoring the hwmon-side driver > > diff -uprN -X a/Documentation/dontdiff a/Documentation/spi/spi-lm70llp b/Documentation/spi/spi-lm70llp > > --- a/Documentation/spi/spi-lm70llp 2008-10-10 03:43:53.000000000 +0530 > > +++ b/Documentation/spi/spi-lm70llp 2008-11-12 12:13:50.000000000 +0530 > > @@ -13,10 +13,19 @@ Description > > This driver provides glue code connecting a National Semiconductor LM70 LLP > > temperature sensor evaluation board to the kernel's SPI core subsystem. > > > > +This is an SPI master controller driver. It can be used in conjunction with > > +(layered under) the LM70 logical driver (an "SPI protocol driver"). > > In effect, this driver turns the parallel port interface on the eval board > > into a SPI bus with a single device, which will be driven by the generic > > LM70 driver (drivers/hwmon/lm70.c). > > > > + > > +Hardware Interfacing > > +-------------------- > > +The schematic for this particular board (the LM70LLP eval board) is > > +available (on page 4) here: > > +http://www.designergraphix.com/pull/spi_lm70/LM70LLPEVALmanual.pdf > > + > > The hardware interfacing on the LM70 LLP eval board is as follows: > > > > Parallel LM70 LLP > > @@ -67,3 +76,4 @@ Thanks to > > o David Brownell for mentoring the SPI-side driver development. > > o Dr.Craig Hollabaugh for the (early) "manual" bitbanging driver version. > > o Nadir Billimoria for help interpreting the circuit schematic. > > + > > Pointless change, should be reverted. Sorry I do not follow you..which part are you referring to as pointless? IMHO, the schematic PDF download is important for anyone trying to understand the 'physical' driver. > > > diff -uprN -X a/Documentation/dontdiff a/drivers/hwmon/lm70.c b/drivers/hwmon/lm70.c > > --- a/drivers/hwmon/lm70.c 2008-10-10 03:43:53.000000000 +0530 > > +++ b/drivers/hwmon/lm70.c 2008-11-12 12:18:34.000000000 +0530 > > @@ -65,10 +65,9 @@ static ssize_t lm70_sense_temp(struct de > > "spi_write_then_read failed with status %d\n", status); > > goto out; > > } > > - dev_dbg(dev, "rxbuf[1] : 0x%x rxbuf[0] : 0x%x\n", rxbuf[1], rxbuf[0]); > > - > > - raw = (rxbuf[1] << 8) + rxbuf[0]; > > - dev_dbg(dev, "raw=0x%x\n", raw); > > + raw = (rxbuf[0] << 8) + rxbuf[1]; > > + dev_dbg(dev, "rxbuf[0] : 0x%x rxbuf[1] : 0x%x raw=0x%08x\n", > > raw is a s16, it makes little sense to print 8 digits. Should be: > 0x%04x. > Done. Pl find the revised patch attached. David, is the patch okay with you? Pl let me know, Regards, Kaiwan. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: spi_lm70.13nov08.patch Type: text/x-patch Size: 6011 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://lists.lm-sensors.org/pipermail/lm-sensors/attachments/20081113/17a4ab63/attachment.bin