Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] dt-bindings: hwmon: Add support for ST TSC1641 power monitor

[Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>]

On 10/27/25 01:40, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
> On 26/10/2025 20:58, Guenter Roeck wrote:
>>>>>> +  reg:
>>>>>> +    maxItems: 1
>>>>>> +
>>>>>> +  shunt-resistor-micro-ohms:
>>>>>> +    description: Shunt resistor value in micro-ohms. Since device has internal
>>>>>> +      16-bit RSHUNT register with 10 uOhm LSB, the maximum value is capped at
>>>>>> +      655.35 mOhm.
>>>>>> +    minimum: 100
>>>>>> +    default: 1000
>>>>>> +    maximum: 655350
>>>>>> +
>>>>>> +  st,alert-polarity-active-high:
>>>>>
>>>>> Isn't this just interrupt? You need proper interrupts property and then
>>>>> its flag define the type of interrupt.
>>>>
>>>> This controls a bit written into device register.
>>>> I omitted interrupt property after looking at existing power monitor bindings,
>>>> especially hwmon/ti,ina2xx.yaml. INA226 has very similar bit controlling alert
>>>> pin polarity and binding doesn't define alert pin as interrupt. Overall, I didn't
>>>> find many power monitor bindings defining alert pins as interrupts.
>>>
>>>
>>> On INA2xx that's SMBUS Alert. Is this the case here as well?
>>>
>>
>> It could be wired to SMBus alert, or it could be wired to a CPU interrupt pin.
> 
> So please explain me why CPU interrupt pin, which in every really every
> device called "interrupts", would not be "interrupts" here? How CPU can
> even guess the number of the interrupt in such case, without
> "interrupts" property?
> 

I thought we were discussing the need for the st,alert-polarity-active-high
property, sorry.

Guenter