Re: [PATCH] drivers/hwmon/emc1403.c: add support for emc1412

[Jean Delvare <jdelvare@suse.de>]

Hi Guenter,

On Mon, 12 May 2014 08:59:31 -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> I only see the adt7462 driver scanning for 0x5c. Guess I'll accept the
> address for now; I don't see a good reason not to.

sensors-detect also scans it for the SMSC EMC1072, EMC1073 and EMC1074
which we don't support yet. I have no objection to scanning it.

> Couple of other questions:
> - would it make sense to relax store_hyst to not return ERANGE but use clamp_val
>   instead ?

Yes, I had exactly the same thought when reading the code this morning.

> - Currently hyst can be stored for all crit attributes even though there is only
>   one hyst register. Should we change this to only support writing it for
>   temp1_crit_hyst ?

Yes, that would align this driver with what other drivers do.

> - I might convert the driver to use regmap if I find the time. Do you have any
>   concerns with that ?

I know nothing about regmap, so no objection, I simply don't care ;-)

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Jean Delvare
SUSE L3 Support