From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail.active-venture.com ([67.228.131.205]:61915 "EHLO mail.active-venture.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753907AbaF0OQA (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Jun 2014 10:16:00 -0400 Message-ID: <53AD7C9B.8040407@roeck-us.net> Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2014 07:15:55 -0700 From: Guenter Roeck MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Johannes Pointner , Jean Delvare , Naveen Krishna Chatradhi CC: lm-sensors@lm-sensors.org, linux-iio@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: hwmon: ntc_thermistor: Add another ntc(epcos) to the driver References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Sender: linux-iio-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-iio@vger.kernel.org On 06/27/2014 01:50 AM, Johannes Pointner wrote: > As I saw in the latest patches for the ntc_thermistor, in which as > part of the patch the module description changed to : > > MODULE_DESCRIPTION("NTC Thermistor Driver from Murata"); > > I wanted to know if it is intended to extend the driver for further > manufacturers like in my case for an epcos ntc in the future? > Sure, why not ? Better than create an entirely new driver which would be all the same but for the tables. The comment is misleading anyway (the driver is for Murata thermistors, not from them), so we can always drop the "from Murata". Guenter From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Guenter Roeck Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2014 14:15:55 +0000 Subject: Re: [lm-sensors] hwmon: ntc_thermistor: Add another ntc(epcos) to the driver Message-Id: <53AD7C9B.8040407@roeck-us.net> List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Johannes Pointner , Jean Delvare , Naveen Krishna Chatradhi Cc: lm-sensors@lm-sensors.org, linux-iio@vger.kernel.org On 06/27/2014 01:50 AM, Johannes Pointner wrote: > As I saw in the latest patches for the ntc_thermistor, in which as > part of the patch the module description changed to : > > MODULE_DESCRIPTION("NTC Thermistor Driver from Murata"); > > I wanted to know if it is intended to extend the driver for further > manufacturers like in my case for an epcos ntc in the future? > Sure, why not ? Better than create an entirely new driver which would be all the same but for the tables. The comment is misleading anyway (the driver is for Murata thermistors, not from them), so we can always drop the "from Murata". Guenter _______________________________________________ lm-sensors mailing list lm-sensors@lm-sensors.org http://lists.lm-sensors.org/mailman/listinfo/lm-sensors