[lm-sensors] [PATCH] Support for DS75 thermal sensor

Wolfgang Grandegger wg at grandegger.com
Tue Jul 8 15:09:32 CEST 2008


Jean Delvare wrote:
> On Tue, 08 Jul 2008 11:22:36 +0200, Wolfgang Grandegger wrote:
>> The existing driver for the LM75 is unable to identify a compatible DS75 
>> device properly. This patch from
>>
>> http://lists.lm-sensors.org/pipermail/lm-sensors/2007-February/018838.html 
>>
>> does fix the problem and I wonder why it did not make it into the kernel yet.
> 
> Because meanwhile the lm75 driver was converted to a new-style
> i2c driver, with support for the DS75:
> 
> http://lm-sensors.org/kernel?p=kernel/mhoffman/hwmon-2.6.git;a=commit;h=ea6db11742de63324f29d1383122657cabe90940
> 
> This will presumably go in kernel 2.6.27-rc1.

Ah, thanks for the info. Unfortunately, this new driver does not work 
with the DS75 on our custom board. THe identification fails, because 
it's as in the old lm75.c driver (and not like Alan suggested).

Wolfgang.





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