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From: Tzung-Bi Shih <tzungbi@kernel.org>
To: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Cc: Hardware Monitoring <linux-hwmon@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] hwmon: (max16065) Fix alarm attributes
Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2024 05:47:14 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Zp3yYg6eA5_UVgCq@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3335085f-7ab5-436f-b358-f53a3763b63b@roeck-us.net>

On Sun, Jul 21, 2024 at 08:48:51PM -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> On 7/21/24 20:30, Tzung-Bi Shih wrote:
> > On Sun, Jul 21, 2024 at 12:35:06PM -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> > > Chips reporting overcurrent alarms report it in the second alarm register.
> > 
> > I can't understand the sentence.  Not sure whether it needs to be rephrased or
> > not.  s/overcurrent/overvoltage/.
> > 
> 
> No, it is over-current. Not all chips support current measurements.
> Those who do support it also support reporting over-current alarms.
> Over-current alarms are reported in the second alarm register.

Table 16 in [1] and Table 11 in [2] use "overvoltage".  Please ignore the
comments if I'm misunderstanding.

[1]: https://www.analog.com/media/en/technical-documentation/data-sheets/max16067.pdf
[2]: https://www.analog.com/media/en/technical-documentation/data-sheets/max16068.pdf

> Do you have a suggestion for better wording ?

No, or I guess I can understand the sentence strucutre a bit now:
Chips (reporting overcurrent alarms) report it in the second alarm register.

  reply	other threads:[~2024-07-22  5:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-07-21 19:35 [PATCH 1/2] hwmon: (max16065) Fix overflows seen when writing limits Guenter Roeck
2024-07-21 19:35 ` [PATCH 2/2] hwmon: (max16065) Fix alarm attributes Guenter Roeck
2024-07-22  3:30   ` Tzung-Bi Shih
2024-07-22  3:48     ` Guenter Roeck
2024-07-22  5:47       ` Tzung-Bi Shih [this message]
2024-07-22 13:45         ` Guenter Roeck
2024-07-22  3:30 ` [PATCH 1/2] hwmon: (max16065) Fix overflows seen when writing limits Tzung-Bi Shih

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