On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 09:03:58PM +0000, Jonathan Cameron wrote: > > Good point. New use case for us so suggestions on how to do the association cleanly would be most welcome. Is there anything similar out there? We could add a per iio device sysfs interface to add additional mappings but it is a little uggly... > Best idea I can come up with is to disconnect iio_hwmon from the requirement to instantiate it explicitly. There might be two sysfs entries - one to attach it to a specific iio device, and one to attach it to individual channels of an iio device. Similar like the new_device interface on i2c adapters, and along the line of echo max1139 something > /sys/module/iio_hwmon/something_else and/or echo max1139 something channel > /sys/module/iio_hwmon/something_else ie sysfs attributes associated with iio_hwmon, not with the iio device itself. That would require iio_hwmon to be instantiated automatically, though, as soon as it is loaded, not through the iio device or through platform data and/or through devicetree. Guenter > -- > Sent from my Android phone with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. > > Guenter Roeck <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 08:41:45AM +0000, Jonathan Cameron wrote: > > On 16/01/13 05:49, Guenter Roeck wrote: > > >On Sat, Nov 24, 2012 at 10:18:04AM +0000, Jonathan Cameron wrote: > > >>On 11/24/2012 05:27 AM, Guenter Roeck wrote: > > >>>Hi all, > > >>Hi Guenter, > > >>> > > >>>What would it take to move the MAX1363 driver out of staging ? > > >>> > > >>Nothing given it is already out of staging in linux-next (though only has been > > >>for about a week) > > >> > > >>>Background is that I need a hardware monitoring driver for MAX1139, and would > > >>>like to avoid using a driver from staging if possible (after all, it might > > >>>go away anytime). Another option would be to submit a hwmon driver for it, > > >>>but that doesn't seem to be the best approach. > > >> > > >>The hwmon driver client driver for iio devices is still in staging, but mainly > > >>because I haven't had a chance to take a last look at it before posting it to > > >>the hmwon list. IIRC you were more or less happy with what went into staging > > >>in the first place, so hopefully not too much left to do. > > >> > > >Jonathan, > > > > > >can you educate me how to actually use iio_hwmon ? I get it loaded, > > >which registers the platform driver, but I have no idea how to instantiate it. > > > > > http://marc.info/?l=linux-iio&m=132933525705497&w=2 > > > > [PATCH 6/6] stargate2: example of map configuration for iio to hwmon > > example. > > > Hi Jonathan, > > In other words, I can not test it on a PC unless I write a driver to > instantiate it. Not too helpful :(. It means that iio drivers can not > be used / instantiated for hardware monitoring on PCs. > > Thanks, > Guenter > _______________________________________________ lm-sensors mailing list lm-sensors@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.lm-sensors.org/mailman/listinfo/lm-sensors
