Re: Driver for SMSC SCH5627 needed

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Hi Jean,

While I have your attention :-)

> Hi Jean
>
>>> Took a quick glance at the datasheet. This is a totally different
>>> beast that is not even remotely compatible to anything we support thus
>>> far AFAIK. It contains an embedded microcontroller (!) which handles
>>> all the hwmon related tasks. The datasheet that I received doesn't
>>> contain any information about the microcontroller other than a simple
>>> block diagram. So at the moment it's absolutely a no go and even with
>>> all the technical data we would have to start from scratch with a new
>>> driver.
>>
>> Thanks Juerg for checking this. Can you please update sensors-detect
>> with the device name and features, and also create an entry in
>> wiki/Devices? So that other user with that chip know the current
>> status, even if it's bad.
>
> I added detection to sensors-detect but I'm not too happy with the outcome:
> Trying family `SMSC'... Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Yes
> Found `SMSC SCH5627 Desktop Embedded Controller'
> Â (but not activated)
>
> The chip shouldn't be probed at all since it's non-standard. Users
> might get confused by the 'not activated' message and will ask how to
> activate it. Is there a way to bypass the probing and just print a
> message that there is no driver for this chip?

Any suggestions on how to accomplish this?

Thanks
...Juerg

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