[PATCH] Support for DS75 thermal sensor

Grant Likely grant.likely at secretlab.ca
Thu Jul 17 17:33:12 EST 2008


On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 09:31:24AM +0200, Wolfgang Grandegger wrote:
> Jean Delvare wrote:
>> On Wed, 16 Jul 2008 10:18:26 -0400, Jon Smirl wrote:
>>> I've found this thread now. Why can't we totally remove probing from
>>> i2c-mpc? These are embedded systems, not open boxes like a PC. If a
>>> i2c client hasn't been converted to the new model yet, convert it
>>> before deploying with the new i2c-mpc driver.  It's not very hard to
>>> convert the client drivers.
>>
>> I tend to agree. And the number of unconverted drivers is getting very
>> low these days. Only 2 RTC drivers are left, and by the end of the day,
>> almost all hwmon drivers will be converted as well.
>
> Thinking more about it I also prefer removing the I2C_CLASS_HWMON flag  
> completely. It just affects HWMON devices anyhow and if there is still  
> an old style driver around, it should be converted.

I'm cool with that.

g.



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