From: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: platform-driver-x86@vger.kernel.org,
Guenter Roeck <guenter.roeck@ericsson.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH RESEND] x86,mrst: Intel Medfield over-current detection patch
Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2011 13:52:28 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110208135228.GA11302@srcf.ucam.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110208104535.71a4bb12@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
On Tue, Feb 08, 2011 at 10:45:35AM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
> On Mon, 7 Feb 2011 19:58:43 +0000
> Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org> wrote:
>
> > hwmon includes support for exposing the instantaneous current draw.
> > hwmon includes support for triggering events if a parameter crosses a
> > threshold. I still don't see why this isn't an hwmon driver, perhaps
> > with a small platform driver for the more estoric bits of the setup.
>
> The hwmon maintainer says its not. Explicitly so. Been there, had that
> discussion a while ago (in fact we had it as well in December if you
> remember and I pointed you at the hwmon list discussion
The hwmon maintainer says that it's not an hwmon driver, not that it
shouldn't be an hwmon driver.
--
Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-02-08 13:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-01-25 14:35 [PATCH RESEND] x86,mrst: Intel Medfield over-current detection patch Alan Cox
2011-02-07 19:58 ` Matthew Garrett
2011-02-08 10:45 ` Alan Cox
2011-02-08 13:52 ` Matthew Garrett [this message]
2011-02-08 14:08 ` Alan Cox
2011-02-08 15:49 ` Guenter Roeck
2011-02-08 15:56 ` Matthew Garrett
2011-02-08 16:09 ` Alan Cox
2011-02-08 16:19 ` Matthew Garrett
2011-02-08 16:21 ` Guenter Roeck
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