On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 07:18:07PM -0400, Christopher Head wrote: > On Mon, 19 Mar 2012 14:46:03 -0700 > Guenter Roeck <guenter.roeck@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > Chris, > > > > I briefly looked into this a while ago, after the HECI (MEI) driver > > was put back into the kernel. Problem is that it is not well > > documented, and it is built around the assumption that it would only > > be used from user space applications. This means one would need to > > understand it enough to 1) port the necessary user space libraries > > into the kernel, 2) modify the MEI driver to support those in-kernel > > libraries, and 3) use the libraries to write a hwmon driver. > > > > Writing the hwmon driver would be straightforward, but the rest is > > just too much for my spare time. > > > > Guenter > > Alright, thanks for the information. One of these days I might take a > peek and perhaps try to hack up a patch, but it won't be any time soon. > Or maybe someone else will first. > I had another quick look. Replace 1) and 2) with "re-write the kernel driver to support non-file accesses". The libraries are not really needed, but the kernel mei driver has file accesses written all over it, so it would require a major rewrite to enable in-kernel access. Guenter _______________________________________________ lm-sensors mailing list lm-sensors@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.lm-sensors.org/mailman/listinfo/lm-sensors
