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

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Date:	Fri, 11 Dec 2009 17:36:59 +0100
From:	Luca Tettamanti <kronos.it@...il.com>
To:	Matthew Garrett <mjg59@...f.ucam.org>
Cc:	lm-sensors@...sensors.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [lm-sensors] [PATCH] hwmon: Add driver for intel PCI thermal 
	subsystem

On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 5:33 PM, Matthew Garrett <mjg59@...f.ucam.org> 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@...hat.com> 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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