Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 29 Aug 2013 19:32:10 +0200 | Subject | Re: [PATCH v3] gpio: add GPIO support for F71882FG and F71889F | From | Linus Walleij <> |
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On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 6:08 PM, Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net> wrote: > On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 04:37:38PM +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote:
>> The majority of board vendors clearly don't expect the OS to drive the >> hwmon chips - they're there for the benefit of ACPI and SMM code. That >> doesn't mean that there's no benefit in having drivers for them, just >> that the board vendors don't care about that use case and so won't do >> anything to make it easier. >> > Actually, not entirely true. Some vendors even provide software running on > Windows to access those chips (including access to fans controlled through > GPIO pins) and to provide information to the user. It might be more accurate > to say that some board vendors don't care about Linux (or about providing > access through ACPI, for that matter). > > Question here is what the Linux kernel community's policy is going to be > to handle such cases. Pragmatic or dogmatic ?
The GPIO maintainer is going to be pragmatic, because it's cool to be able to control HWMON things on one's workstation.
The kernel is a funnier place with these drivers, so I'm applying the patch.
Yours, Linus Walleij
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