[lm-sensors] W83793 driver

[ymu@winbond.com (Yuan Mu)]

Hi Rudolf,
> 
> After few hundreds kilometers in train and many hours outside of it I have
> finally finished initial review. And I still dont know if I catched everything.
> 
Thanks :)

> I'm attaching the driver with comments.
> 
> I would like to fix for sure:
> 
> 1) step time/stop time unit to milliseconds
Of course ok.
> 2) tolerance/range temperature to milidegrees of celsius, plus there is a little
> problem with sysfs names. For EHF driver they are like this:
> ruik at ruik:/sys/bus/i2c/devices/9191-0290$ ls pwm1*
> pwm1  pwm1_enable  pwm1_min_output  pwm1_mode  pwm1_stop_time  pwm1_target
> pwm1_tolerance
> 
> Because they are tight to pwm but your chip design has it tighten to temps... I
> guess we cannot change it anyway...
> 
Yes, i guess so..
> Please can you provide some short documentation for new sysfs files that are
> somewhat non-standard so we may discuss the names?
> 
> For example temp##index##_fan_map would be better name
> temp[1-*]_auto_channels_pwm because we already define pwm[1-*]_auto_channels_temp
> 
OK.
> 3)  WRITE_TO_REG
>     is bad :) Please do not trust the cached values always write new one. ACPI
>    might changed the value in your behind ;)
> 
Ah, i hate ACPI :(
Almost all write function use this macro so to change it is simple :)
> if (0 <= w83793_write_value(client, REG
> 
> Does not look nice too.
> 
> Plus there are many more comments and ideas in annotated driver. There are three
> of my TODOs I will do that soon or later.
> 
I will fix what you said first.
> I'm offline starting tomorrow noon for two days so I will be not able to respond.
> 
> I think I will be able to respond you in morning if you have some questions to
> my mail ;)
> 

Thanks again for your review ;)

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Best Regards
Yuan Mu


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