Re: [lm-sensors] [PATCH] hwmon: Add driver for intel PCI thermal subsystem

From: Luca Tettamanti
Date: Fri Dec 11 2009 - 11:37:09 EST


On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 5:33 PM, Matthew Garrett <mjg59@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 05:28:37PM +0100, Luca Tettamanti wrote:
>> On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 4:52 PM, Matthew Garrett <mjg@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > Recent Intel chipsets have support for a PCI device providing access
>> > to on-board thermal monitoring. Previous versions have merely used this
>> > to allow the BIOS to set trip points, but Ibex Peak documents a set of
>> > registers to read values. This driver implements an hwmon interface to
>> > read them.
>>
>> Does it plays nice with other drivers?
>> More specifically: is it possible to load the native driver and this
>> one (which I presume pokes at the same chip) at the same time?
>
> What do you mean by native driver? This is a native driver for the chip
> in question.

I mean the driver for the hwmon chip attached to I2C/SMB bus.

Luca
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