My understanding of the resource management in the Linux 2.6 device
driver model is that the devices should declare their resources, and
then when a driver attaches to a device, it should request the
resources it will be using, so as to mark them busy. This is how the
PCI and PNP subsystems work, you can clearly see the two levels of
resources (declaration and request) in /proc/ioports for these
devices.
So I believe that our platform hardware monitoring drivers should
follow the same logic. At the moment, we only declare the resources
but we do not request them. This patch adds the I/O region request
and release calls.
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Acked-by: Juerg Haefliger <juergh@gmail.com>
The configuration index port of the vt1211 can be accessed at two
different addresses 0x2e or 0x4e, depending on pin strappings. This
patch adds support to scan both addresses during module
initialization.
Signed-off-by: Juerg Haefliger <juergh@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
hwmon: New driver for the VIA VT1211
This is a new driver for the VIA VT1211 Super-IO chip. It is a rewrite
of the existing vt1211 driver (by Mark D. Studebaker and Lars Ekman)
which has been around for a while but never made it into the main
kernel tree.
It is implemented as a platform driver and therefore requires
lm_sensors 2.10.1 to function properly.
Signed-off-by: Juerg Haefliger <juergh@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
