IT87 Linux Driver For Supporting Many Motherboard Sensors Is Facing Death

[phoronix]

Phoronix: IT87 Linux Driver For Supporting Many Motherboard Sensors Is Facing Death

While Linux hardware support for desktop PCs has advanced a great deal over the years, one area that continues to struggle is support for fan/thermal/power sensors on many of today's motherboards. This area has struggled with not enough public documentation / data-sheets from ASIC vendors as well as not enough upstream Linux kernel developers being interested in the hwmon subsystem. The IT87 Linux driver for many common Super I/O chips found on countless motherboards is unfortunately facing a downfall...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=IT87-Linux-Driver-Axing

[Chewi]

While I'm appreciative of his work, I'm not sure why he's saying it would be so difficult to get it mainlined. You can literally copy it87.c and compat.h into drivers/hwmon and it builds along with the rest of the kernel. I guess he doesn't expect to just be accepted as one bulk commit.

[deve]

I wrote my own fan controller based on this module for my nvidia (fan connected to the motherboard). I already use it a half a year and I never had any issues with it.

[Mario Junior]

Press F to pay respects. Now, what driver people will use?

[milkylainen]

I don't get it. It's a P.O.S driver somewhere in hwmon. A lot of those drivers look like total shit anyway.
Also. Why delete it? Just keep it stale on github. Maybe someone will care enough some day.
Cry-baby move?

[Weasel]

I don't get it. It's a P.O.S driver somewhere in hwmon. A lot of those drivers look like total shit anyway.
Also. Why delete it? Just keep it stale on github. Maybe someone will care enough some day.
Cry-baby move?

Cause you know, removing stuff is "fashionable" these days.

[rene]

I wrote my own fan controller based on this module for my nvidia (fan connected to the motherboard). I already use it a half a year and I never had any issues with it.

start submitting it upstream!

[rene]

Cause you know, removing stuff is "fashionable" these days.

yeah, my am386 and sparcstation 2 are still sad: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=afwIZDtrRj4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3O1YVUI9N4

[rene]

While I'm appreciative of his work, I'm not sure why he's saying it would be so difficult to get it mainlined. You can literally copy it87.c and compat.h into drivers/hwmon and it builds along with the rest of the kernel. I guess he doesn't expect to just be accepted as one bulk commit.

I was actually wondering about some unsupported / unknown chip id with sensors-detect on my new amd ryzen 2700 asus x470-i mini itx build: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZNvj67PAEc did neither expect an out-of-tree driver like this to exist, guess I have to give it a try on that system another day!

[Zan Lynx]

I don't get it. It's a P.O.S driver somewhere in hwmon. A lot of those drivers look like total shit anyway.
Also. Why delete it? Just keep it stale on github. Maybe someone will care enough some day.
Cry-baby move?

Because people keep harassing him over it. As long as it is the version on Github with the newest patches and a user who actually sometimes responds, he's going to keep getting people bothering him.

Maybe he never wanted to be a maintainer of the thing and just forked it for his own purposes. By taking it down, people will find someone else to hassle.