[lm-sensors] FSC Scylla (and Poseidon, Hermes and Heimdall) driver ready for testing

[Jean Delvare]

Hi Hans,

On Mon, 13 Aug 2007 22:13:27 +0200, Hans de Goede wrote:
> Jean Delvare wrote:
> > On Mon, 30 Jul 2007 10:20:45 +0200, Hans de Goede wrote:
> >> As some of you know I've been working on a unified driver for the Fujitsu
> >> Siemens hwmon chip family. Attached is the resulting driver. I would be much
> >> obliged if some of you could test this.
> > 
> > Can you please add detection of the Heimdall chip to sensors-detect?
> 
> Done,

Thank you.

> I didn't fill in the driver name yet though, naming the merged driver fscscy 
> might not be such a good idea, since then lm_sensors-2.10.x expects to find the 
> raw dumps of the status registers in tempX_status sysfs entries, and without 
> these lm_sensors-2.10.x will not work. So I would rather pick a new driver 
> name, as the intend of the new driver is to get rid of cruft like the raw 
> status register dumps (and replace it by proper _fault and _alarm files).
> 
> So maybe I should name it after the newest member of the family (at this 
> moment), fschmd, that name is still free, and does not contain xxx. Then I can 
> write fschmd support fot lm_sensors-2.10.5 which will not expect the old files, 
> and which will gracefully handle the fact that depending on the chip found the 
> number of fans and temps can vary.

This is fine with me.

-- 
Jean Delvare