Re: [PATCH 0/2] Adding support for Microchip PAC1711

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

On 10/19/25 03:31, Jonathan Cameron wrote:
> On Wed, 15 Oct 2025 13:12:14 +0300
> Ariana Lazar <ariana.lazar@microchip.com> wrote:
> 
>> The PAC1711 product is a single-channel power monitor with accumulator.
>> The device uses 12-bit resolution for voltage and current measurements and
>> 24 bits power calculations. The accumulator register (56-bit) could
>> accumulate power (energy), current (Coulomb counter) or voltage.
>>
>> PAC1711 measures up to 42V Full-Scale Range.
> 
> Hi Ariana,
> 
> For devices like this where the datasheet explicitly calls out usecases in
> power monitoring e.g. for "Portable and Embedded Computing" (amongst other
> things) there is always a question to answer wrt to whether the correct
> place to support them in Linux is in hwmon or IIO. Note that, whilst this
> has long been an informal policy I've become more strict on this after some
> concerns were raised in the last cycle - the presence of similar devices
> in IIO isn't necessarily a sign that was the right choice, but it is worth
> looking at the history of those divers as it may provide more insight into
> why they are in IIO.
> 
> To address that we ask that:
> 1) Drivers for this sort of potentially borderline device are +CC to hwmon
>     list and maintainers
> 2) A justification for IIO making more sense is included. That can be
>     based on what cannot be supported in hwmon (high speed capture being
>     a typical item - that doesn't seem to apply here as it's only 200 sample/sec)
> 
> Anyhow, I've +CC relevant folk so if you can reply with that info here then
> that would be great.
> 
This should really be a hardware monitoring driver.

Guenter