Re: 2.6.11-mm3: it87 sensor driver loads but doesn't attach as a client on amd64 gigabyte k8

[Sam Elstob <samelstob@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Jean,

On Tue, 2005-03-15 at 23:48 +0100, Jean Delvare wrote:
> Hi Sam,
> 
> > I've been trying to get the it87 driver to work on my Gigabyte K8NF-9 
> > motherboard.  Found that if I hack out this bit with #if 0:
> > 
> > #if 0
> > #define REALLY_SLOW_IO
> >                          /* We need the timeouts for at least some 
> > IT87-like chips. But only
> >                             if we read 'undefined' registers. */
> >                          i = inb_p(address + 1);
> >                          if (inb_p(address + 2) != i
> >                           || inb_p(address + 3) != i
> >                           || inb_p(address + 7) != i) {
> >                                  err = -ENODEV;
> >                                  goto ERROR1;
> >                          }
> > #undef REALLY_SLOW_IO
> > #endif
> > 
> > then it loads and works perfectly.  With this in the driver loads but 
> > fails silently - the attach client fails.
> > 
> > Any ideas?  I'm not quite sure what the code is doing here.
> 
> See this similar report:
>   http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4335
> I attached a patch to the report, which I will send to Greg if you
> confirm it works OK for you.
> 

I can confirm this patch works fine with my Gigabyte K8NF-9.  Thanks for
the quick response.  Keep up the good work!

sam