From: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: platform-driver-x86@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86,mrst: Intel Medfield over-current detection patch
Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2010 16:31:00 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101220163100.GA27327@srcf.ucam.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20101220162620.6488c276@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 04:26:20PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
> > Hm. Do you have a summary or a pointer to that discussion? This really
> > does seem to be a hardware monitoring device, and so hwmon would seem
> > the more natural home for it - I'd like some idea of what the
> > justification was.
>
> Basically that it has no interface features in common with anything in
> the hwmon API, nor that looked likely to be generic or could be made to
> fit them.
>
> hwmon isn't "any hardware monitoring device", it's classes of devices
> that fit certain common interfaces - eg thermal reporting ones.
But also voltage and current reporting ones, including alarm thresholds.
--
Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org
prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-12-20 16:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-12-13 11:53 [PATCH] x86,mrst: Intel Medfield over-current detection patch Alan Cox
2010-12-20 16:10 ` Matthew Garrett
2010-12-20 16:26 ` Alan Cox
2010-12-20 16:31 ` Matthew Garrett [this message]
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