Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965130Ab2FATnc (ORCPT ); Fri, 1 Jun 2012 15:43:32 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:26044 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1759223Ab2FATna (ORCPT ); Fri, 1 Jun 2012 15:43:30 -0400 Message-ID: <4FC91B50.6080101@redhat.com> Date: Fri, 01 Jun 2012 14:43:12 -0500 From: Dean Nelson User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:12.0) Gecko/20120430 Thunderbird/12.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Geert Uytterhoeven CC: Meelis Roos , Jean Delvare , Linux Kernel list Subject: Re: f71805f arch dependencies? References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2124 Lines: 55 On 06/01/2012 08:23 AM, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 3:12 PM, Meelis Roos wrote: >>>> Loading f71805f on sparc64 causes hard reboot beacuse on invalid >>>> hardware access. Should this driver be restricted to PC, or some wider >>>> subset of platforms where this LPC SUper-IO chip is present? >>> >>> Which tree is f71805f in? Not in Linus'. >> >> Running upstream 3.4.0-09547-gfb21aff and it is there as >> SENSORS_F71805F. >> >> In fact, there are more LPC hwmon drivers that people can use to "shoot >> themselves in the leg" - SMSC LPC*, SMSC SCH*, SMSC DME1737 (partly I2C, >> partly ISA IO), and Fintek F71882FG and compatibles. Maybe more. > > Sorry, I thought it was a git SHA1 commit ID. > Didn't know hardware manufacturers christen their chips to the abbreviated > commit ID in their VHDL repository ;-) > > Indeed, it seems commit 746cdfbf01c0a30d59f6e1b6942d432658d7c7cd > ("hwmon: Avoid building drivers for powerpc that read/write ISA addresses") > was a bit too limited... I lack the hardware expertise to take the SENSORS_ Kconfig changes any further than I did. As it was, I got much direction from Jean in what I did do. So feel free to take it further as you (or whomever) sees fit. Thanks, Dean > > Gr{oetje,eeting}s, > > Geert > > -- > Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org > > In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But > when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. > -- Linus Torvalds > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/