Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 3 May 2011 14:35:01 +0100 | From | Alan Cox <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 2/2] watchdog: add support for MOXA V2100 watchdog driver |
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> Another thing that might be nice here is to have one module that probes > the superio-port and then registers a platform device that other drivers
That doesn't help. See the it87 request_muxed patches pending. Because the port can be muxed we need to actually implement port muxing across the super I/O devices. That's a separate and larger problem altogether and this device will get fixed as we do the other so not a problem.
> can can bind to. Right now, you have to load the module manually and > then check if it's there, something we no longer do for most devices.
A lot of these super I/O devices have no entirely safe autodetect, and the same is true for it87 and many others. There isn't a nice elegant solution really.
Alan
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