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

Christian Kujau christian at nerdbynature.de
Thu Apr 19 19:36:10 EST 2012


Jean Delvare <khali at linux-fr.org> wrote:

>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

I may need a day or two to get to it, but I'll test it.

Thanks,
C.
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