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From: Nicolin Chen <nicoleotsuka@gmail.com>
To: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Cc: jdelvare@suse.com, robh+dt@kernel.org, mark.rutland@arm.com,
	afd@ti.com, linux-hwmon@vger.kernel.org,
	devicetree@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] hwmon: ina3221: Get channel names from DT node
Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2018 10:43:54 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180921174353.GA24662@Asurada-Nvidia.nvidia.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <75741ce9-80a3-9277-b8e3-2d3c3e003797@roeck-us.net>

On Fri, Sep 21, 2018 at 05:56:00AM -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote:

> > I tried is_visible but it looks like it won't be that neat to
> > implement as some attributes of this driver don't really pass
> > the channel index to the store()/show() but some other indexes.
> > 
> 
> The channel index is not the only means that can be used to determine
> the channel index. Many drivers use the position in the attrs[] array
> to determine the channel index. I don't see why this would not be
> possible here.

Hmmm, that should simply work...I didn't mean not possible though.

> > If you are very against the dynamical group, I can drop it to
> > leave the sysfs node as it was.
> > 
> > And for the name nodes that I was talking about above, I will
> > add an sysfs store() function so non-DT users can set them,
> > and I also removed the confusing "unknown" default name.
> > 
> 
> The label attributes are RO. Please follow the ABI.
> 
> temp[1-*]_label Suggested temperature channel label.

Thanks a lot for the hint. I looked up the doc and feel that
this one probably fits my situation more:
    in[0-*]_label   Suggested voltage channel label.

Will follow it in my next version.

Thank you
Nicolin

      reply	other threads:[~2018-09-21 17:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-09-21  0:07 [PATCH 0/2] Add an initial DT binding doc for ina3221 Nicolin Chen
2018-09-21  0:07 ` [PATCH 1/2] dt-bindings: hwmon: Add ina3221 documentation Nicolin Chen
2018-09-21  0:45   ` Guenter Roeck
2018-09-21  1:24     ` Nicolin Chen
2018-09-21  0:07 ` [PATCH 2/2] hwmon: ina3221: Get channel names from DT node Nicolin Chen
2018-09-21  0:41   ` Guenter Roeck
2018-09-21  1:20     ` Nicolin Chen
2018-09-21  9:18       ` Nicolin Chen
2018-09-21 12:56         ` Guenter Roeck
2018-09-21 17:43           ` Nicolin Chen [this message]

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