From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Guenter Roeck Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2015 16:52:12 +0000 Subject: Re: [lm-sensors] [RFC PATCH 0/3] hwmon: (ibmpowernv) add DTS support Message-Id: <20150220165212.GE22752@roeck-us.net> List-Id: References: <1423117857-32759-1-git-send-email-clg@fr.ibm.com> <1424444857-13805-1-git-send-email-clg@fr.ibm.com> In-Reply-To: <1424444857-13805-1-git-send-email-clg@fr.ibm.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?C=E9dric?= Le Goater Cc: Stewart Smith , lm-sensors@lm-sensors.org, Neelesh Gupta , skiboot@lists.ozlabs.org, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, Jean Delvare On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 04:07:34PM +0100, C=E9dric Le Goater wrote: > Hello ! >=20 > These patches rework the ibmpowernv driver to support the new device=20 > tree as proposed by this patchset on the skiboot mailing list : >=20 > https://lists.ozlabs.org/pipermail/skiboot/2015-February/000457.html >=20 > They are based on Linux 3.19 and were tested on IBM Power and Open Power = > systems running trusty. >=20 > The main issue is that the new device tree is incompatible with the=20 > previous ibmpowernv drivers. The consequence is no powernv sensors=20 > on systems with such a opal/linux configuration. >=20 I don't think that would be acceptable. There must be lots of such systems out there. Why does it have to be incompatible ? Can't it support both the old and new versions ? Guenter _______________________________________________ lm-sensors mailing list lm-sensors@lm-sensors.org http://lists.lm-sensors.org/mailman/listinfo/lm-sensors From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from bh-25.webhostbox.net (bh-25.webhostbox.net [208.91.199.152]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by lists.ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id EF7B11A0B5B for ; Sat, 21 Feb 2015 03:52:20 +1100 (AEDT) Received: from mailnull by bh-25.webhostbox.net with sa-checked (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1YOqoL-001y8F-SM for linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org; Fri, 20 Feb 2015 16:52:18 +0000 Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2015 08:52:12 -0800 From: Guenter Roeck To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?C=E9dric?= Le Goater Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 0/3] hwmon: (ibmpowernv) add DTS support Message-ID: <20150220165212.GE22752@roeck-us.net> References: <1423117857-32759-1-git-send-email-clg@fr.ibm.com> <1424444857-13805-1-git-send-email-clg@fr.ibm.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 In-Reply-To: <1424444857-13805-1-git-send-email-clg@fr.ibm.com> Cc: Stewart Smith , lm-sensors@lm-sensors.org, Neelesh Gupta , skiboot@lists.ozlabs.org, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, Jean Delvare List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 04:07:34PM +0100, Cédric Le Goater wrote: > Hello ! > > These patches rework the ibmpowernv driver to support the new device > tree as proposed by this patchset on the skiboot mailing list : > > https://lists.ozlabs.org/pipermail/skiboot/2015-February/000457.html > > They are based on Linux 3.19 and were tested on IBM Power and Open Power > systems running trusty. > > The main issue is that the new device tree is incompatible with the > previous ibmpowernv drivers. The consequence is no powernv sensors > on systems with such a opal/linux configuration. > I don't think that would be acceptable. There must be lots of such systems out there. Why does it have to be incompatible ? Can't it support both the old and new versions ? Guenter