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From: Abdel Alkuor <alkuor@gmail.com>
To: Jonathan Cameron <jic23@kernel.org>
Cc: Conor Dooley <conor@kernel.org>,
	krzysztof.kozlowski+dt@linaro.org, robh+dt@kernel.org,
	lars@metafoo.de, conor+dt@kernel.org, linux-iio@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, devicetree@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] dt-bindings: iio: temperature: Add AMS AS6200
Date: Sat, 9 Dec 2023 14:28:55 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ZXS/9+lcD+/ptfKr@abdel> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20231206174050.12ad1c98@jic23-huawei>

On Wed, Dec 06, 2023 at 05:40:50PM +0000, Jonathan Cameron wrote:
> On Mon, 4 Dec 2023 21:19:22 -0500
> Abdel Alkuor <alkuor@gmail.com> wrote:
>
Hi Jonathan,
> I'd not noticed this.  Why is this an IIO driver rather than an hwmon one?
> 
> Mostly we do that only for very high accuracy or weird temperature sensors
> (infrared ones for example or things with complex thermocouple handling).
> Simpler devices meant for hardware monitoring type applications typically go
> in hwmon.
> 
> We have the iio to hwmon bridge driver for things that naturally have uses
> where IIO features are needed, but which get used for hwmon sometimes.
> Not sure this is enough IIO focused though, so perhaps list out why you
> think it should be in IIO?
No specific reason. I thought IIO is the de facto for such sensors. I'll
use hwmon instead.

Thanks the clarification.

Abdel

      reply	other threads:[~2023-12-09 19:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-12-02  4:16 [PATCH v2 1/2] dt-bindings: iio: temperature: Add AMS AS6200 Abdel Alkuor
2023-12-02  4:16 ` [PATCH v2 2/2] iio: temperature: Add support for " Abdel Alkuor
2023-12-04 13:50   ` Jonathan Cameron
2023-12-05  2:16     ` Abdel Alkuor
2023-12-06 17:36       ` Jonathan Cameron
2023-12-03 11:24 ` [PATCH v2 1/2] dt-bindings: iio: temperature: Add " Conor Dooley
2023-12-05  2:19   ` Abdel Alkuor
2023-12-06 17:40     ` Jonathan Cameron
2023-12-09 19:28       ` Abdel Alkuor [this message]

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