Re: [PATCH v3 2/4] hwmon: (lm90) Use hwmon_notify_event()

[Jon Hunter <jonathanh@nvidia.com>]

On 21/02/2022 16:16, Jon Hunter wrote:
> 
> On 21/02/2022 16:02, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> 
> ...
> 
>>> The platform I see this on does use device-tree and it does have a 
>>> node for the ti,tmp451 device which uses the lm90 device. This 
>>> platform uses the device-tree source 
>>> arch/arm64/boot/dts/nvidia/tegra194-p2972-0000.dts and the tmp451 
>>> node is in arch/arm64/boot/dts/nvidia/tegra194-p2888.dtsi.
>>>
>>
>> Interesting. It appears that the call to 
>> devm_thermal_zone_of_sensor_register()
>> in the hwmon core nevertheless returns -ENODEV which is not handled 
>> properly
>> in the hwmon core. I can see a number of reasons for this to happen:
>> - there is no devicetree node for the lm90 device
>> - there is no thermal-zones devicetree node
>> - there is no thermal zone entry in the thermal-zones node which matches
>>    the sensor
> 
> 
> So we definitely have the node for the lm90 device and a thermal-zones 
> node, but I do not see a thermal-sensor node. Maybe this is what we are 
> missing?

Actually, that is not true. We do have thermal-sensor nodes in 
arch/arm64/boot/dts/nvidia/tegra194.dtsi.

Jon

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