Jean Delvare wrote:
Hi Hans, hi Milton,
<snip>
One could make a superio driver, and create sub-devices for the IR,
I2C, floppy, parallel, etc
nodes.
There have been proposals to do this, and this would indeed be a very
good idea, but unfortunately nobody took the time to implement this
properly, push it upstream and volunteer to maintain it. The problem is
that you don't need just a "driver", but a new subsystem, that needs to
be designed and maintained.
Well, I believe there have been some lightweight superio locking coordinator
patches been floating around on the lm_sensors list, and I have reviewed them
and then a new version was done with my issues fixed.
I kinda liked the proposed solution there, it was quite simple, moved all the
generic superio stuff into generic superio code, and added locking for super io
access from multiple drivers, what ever happened to those patches?
If were to start using those, we could actually do a request region and then
never release it, as things should be.
Regards,
Hans
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