[PATCH] Make auto-loading of therm_pm72 possible

2011-01-03 Thread Marc Zyngier
The therm_pm72 driver, used on the PowerMac G5 range, cannot be auto-loaded, since the driver itself creates both the device node and the driver instance. Moving the device node creation to the platform setup code and adding the necessary MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE() information allows the driver to be a

Re: [PATCH] Make auto-loading of therm_pm72 possible

2010-12-06 Thread kevin diggs
Hi, On a sort of related issue, if anyone out there has a PowerMac7,3 (dual 2.5 GHz 970Fx, PCI-X), I would appreciate it if you could do me a favor. I think this therm_pm72 thing creates the sysfs temperature and voltage attributes for the cpus. I noticed on my machine that if I use the cpufreq d

[PATCH] Make auto-loading of therm_pm72 possible

2010-12-05 Thread Marc Zyngier
The therm_pm72 driver, used on the PowerMac G5 range, cannot be auto-loaded, since the driver itself creates both the device node and the driver instance. Moving the device node creation to the platform setup code and adding the necessary MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE() information allows the driver to be a