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From: "Nikhil P. Rao" <nikhil.rao@amd.com>
To: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Cc: <linux-hwmon@vger.kernel.org>, <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
	Brett Creeley <brett.creeley@amd.com>,
	Arun Kumar Prakash <ArunKumar.Prakash@amd.com>,
	"Eric Joyner" <eric.joyner@amd.com>, <nikhil.rao@amd.com>
Subject: ionic: hwmon in the NIC driver or as an auxiliary driver?
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 2026 03:51:09 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20261009035120.3098398-1-nikhil.rao@amd.com> (raw)

Hi Guenter,

Before posting a series, I'd like to check how you want hardware
monitoring for a NIC structured.

We see two options:

 (a) Register hwmon from the ionic driver itself, as other NIC drivers
     do today.

 (b) Have ionic create an "hwmon" auxiliary device, with a new driver
     in drivers/hwmon/ binding to it.

The hwmon guidance in the Sashiko review prompts suggests an auxiliary
driver in drivers/hwmon/ for chips whose main function isn't hardware
monitoring, which would be (b). Which would you prefer?

If (b), should the drivers/hwmon patch go through your tree, or would
you Ack it so the whole series can go through net-next?

Thanks,
Nikhil

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