From: Wolfgang Grandegger <wg@grandegger.com>
To: Matthias Fuchs <matthias.fuchs@esd-electronics.com>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, Sean MacLennan <smaclennan@pikatech.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] powerpc/44x: Add hwmon support to Sequoia device tree
Date: Sat, 06 Sep 2008 17:07:15 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <48C29CA3.80806@grandegger.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200809061440.41629.matthias.fuchs@esd-electronics.com>
Matthias Fuchs wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have chosen "hwmon" because those drivers are placed in the kernel's
> drivers/hwmon subdirectory. "temp" sounds to much like "temporary" for
> me :-)
How about "dtt"? That's what we use in U-Boot for digital temperature
sensors as well.
> We can name it "sensor" - inspired by the lm-sensors projects that
> takes care of such sensors. Because these type of devices are not always
> used to monitor the whatever hardware ... sensor could even be better.
>
> So my favorites are sensor@ or hwmon@.
>
> Sean, I can take your "adi" instead of "analog" for this special sensor.
"adi" sounds more reasonable, indeed and as the OF software ignores the
vendor field, changing the name should not harm.
Wolfgang.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-09-06 15:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-09-04 9:55 [RFC] adding hwmon support to sequoia device tree Matthias Fuchs
2008-09-04 12:25 ` Josh Boyer
2008-09-04 12:50 ` Stefan Roese
2008-09-04 14:28 ` Matthias Fuchs
2008-09-04 14:41 ` [PATCH] powerpc/44x: Add hwmon support to Sequoia " Matthias Fuchs
2008-09-05 10:19 ` Stefan Roese
2008-09-05 14:58 ` Matthias Fuchs
2008-09-05 16:00 ` Scott Wood
2008-09-06 0:17 ` Sean MacLennan
2008-09-06 12:07 ` Josh Boyer
2008-09-08 7:57 ` [PATCH V2] " Matthias Fuchs
2008-09-06 12:40 ` [PATCH] " Matthias Fuchs
2008-09-06 11:49 ` Sean MacLennan
2008-09-06 15:07 ` Wolfgang Grandegger [this message]
2008-09-08 16:03 ` Scott Wood
2008-09-09 11:52 ` Matthias Fuchs
2008-09-09 12:15 ` Josh Boyer
2008-09-05 14:27 ` [RFC] adding hwmon support to sequoia " Sean MacLennan
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