Re: [PATCH 1/3] hwmon: (asus-ec-sensors) add driver for ASUS EC

Guenter Roeck
2022-01-11T16:33:33Z

On 1/11/22 8:08 AM, Eugene Shalygin wrote:
> This driver provides the same data as the asus_wmi_ec_sensors driver
> (and gets it from the same source) but does not use WMI, polling
> the ACPI EC directly.
>
> That provides two enhancements: sensor reading became quicker (on some
> systems or kernel configuration it took almost a full second to read
> all the sensors, that transfers less than 15 bytes of data), the driver
> became more flexible. The driver now relies on ACPI mutex to lock access
> to the EC in the same way as the WMI code does.
>
> Signed-off-by: Eugene Shalygin <eugene.shalygin@gmail.com>

Please version all patches, not just the intro. As it is, the version doesn't
show up in patchwork, which is confusing.

Guenter