[PATCH 00/15] PowerMac i2c API conversions & windfarm updates

Jean Delvare khali at linux-fr.org
Thu Apr 19 19:37:23 EST 2012


On Thu, 19 Apr 2012 18:16:41 +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> The goal of this series is to convert a bulk of PowerMac i2c drivers
> to the new "proper" i2c driver registration model. This series is
> not complete in that there are still a few drivers to do but it
> goes through the bulk of thermal control and some of the nastiest.
> 
> The biggest change is that windfarm is ported to generally use
> the new model, and I've written a new set of windfarm modules to
> take over from the old therm_pm72 (which was mostly unfixable)
> on the PowerMac G5 AGP and Xserve G5 machines.
> 
> This had a bit of testing on a couple of PowerMac G5 AGP variants
> but none at all on Xserve G5 since the one I have is unfortunately
> dead.
> 
> If you want to help me test this, don't forget to disable therm_pm72,
> and instead load windfarm_pm72 or windfarm_rm31 depending on your
> machine (you can load or build-in the whole lot as well). As usual
> windfarm don't properly auto-load yet, I still need to fix that.
> 
> So please test ! Especially if you have an XServe G5

Benjamin, thanks a lot for doing this! These drivers were the last ones
blocking the removal of the legacy binding model in i2c-core. Testers
are very welcome. The earliest we can get these changes upstream, the
better.

Christian, can you please test this series? I'm sure Benjamin can send
the patches to you directly if needed.

-- 
Jean Delvare


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