Re: Supporting ADT7481 temperature sensor

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Thanks for your answers guys.
At this moment, we have hardware troubles on remote sensor
routing,there is too much noise.
If we fix that and depending of which functions are needed and the
time I have, I will code the driver.

2013/8/31 Guenter Roeck <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> On 08/31/2013 05:56 AM, Jean Delvare wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, 30 Aug 2013 09:21:27 -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote:
>>>
>>> On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 02:04:53PM +0200, Mercier Ivan wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hi everybody,
>>>> I have a ADT7481 sensor and I would like to make it work.
>>>> What the current status of this driver?
>>>> Does somebody start writting some code?
>>>> How can I start?
>>>>
>>> If you compare the datasheet with other temperature sensor datasheets,
>>> you'll
>>> notice similarities with ADT7461 and MAX6696, both of which are supported
>>> by the
>>> lm90 driver. You can start from there, look for similarities and
>>> differences,
>>> add support for ADT7481 to the lm90 driver, and submit a patch to get it
>>> integrated.
>>
>>
>> For reference, lm90 vs. new driver was already discussed here:
>> http://lists.lm-sensors.org/pipermail/lm-sensors/2009-January/025132.html
>>
>
> the lm90 driver changed significantly since then, though. Support for
> the third sensor is there now, and adding a new sensor type is much easier.
> I only had a quick glance, but ADT7481 looks pretty similar to MAX6696.
>
> Guenter
>
>
>> Back then, Malcolm Crossley (Cc'd) was working on adding support for
>> the ADT7481. It was four years ago, I have no idea if it actually
>> happened or not. Malcolm, do you have code you would like to share with
>> Ivan?
>>
>

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