Re: f71805f arch dependencies?

From: Geert Uytterhoeven
Date: Fri Jun 01 2012 - 09:23:03 EST


On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 3:12 PM, Meelis Roos <mroos@xxxxxxxx> 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...

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

            Geert

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