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Date: Mon, 29 Feb 2016 20:52:58 +0100
From: Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@free-electrons.com>
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On 29/02/2016 at 18:07:49 +0100, Michael B=C3=BCsch wrote :
> > Also, to export the temperature, use hwmon, see:
> > http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/abelloni/linux.git/commit/?=
h=3Drtc-next&id=3D445c02076f1e60d2ee51503bf1288ef9f3bc8809
>=20
> That is a rather weird API.
> Is there a special naming scheme required for the attribute?
> What does the 'input' mean in 'temp1_input'? And why is it temp1
> instead of temp0?

It means that you can read the value as opposed to output it for example
on a 3d printing nozzle.

I'm not sure why it is indexed starting with 1 but probably because
usually that's how user documentation is written. You'd have to ask the
hwmon maintainers ;)

>=20
> > You may want to use regmap instead of defining your own update_bits
> > (rv3029c2_i2c_maskset_reg) but that is a more invasie change that you
> > may leave out for now.
>=20
> Ok, I will do this last.
> Don't hold your breath. :)
>=20

I'm not even sure this is a good idea but I'd need to have a look at the
code to know ;)


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