Re: [PATCH v3] hwmon: (nct6775) add support for TSI temperature registers

[Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>]

On Tue, Jan 11, 2022 at 07:48:24PM -0800, Zev Weiss wrote:
> These registers report CPU temperatures (and, depending on the system,
> sometimes chipset temperatures) via the TSI interface on AMD systems.
> They're distinct from most of the other Super-IO temperature readings
> (CPUTIN, SYSTIN, etc.) in that they're not a selectable source for
> monitoring and are in a different (higher resolution) format, but can
> still provide useful temperature data.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Zev Weiss <zev@bewilderbeest.net>
> Tested-by: Renze Nicolai <renze@rnplus.nl>
> ---
> 
[ ... ]

> +		switch (data->kind) {
> +		case nct6791:
> +		case nct6792:
> +		case nct6793:
> +			data->REG_TSI_TEMP = NCT6776_REG_TSI_TEMP;
> +			num_reg_tsi_temp = ARRAY_SIZE(NCT6776_REG_TSI_TEMP);
> +			break;
> +		case nct6795:
> +		case nct6796:
> +		case nct6797:
> +		case nct6798:
> +			data->REG_TSI_TEMP = NCT6796_REG_TSI_TEMP;
> +			num_reg_tsi_temp = ARRAY_SIZE(NCT6796_REG_TSI_TEMP);
> +			break;
> +		default:
> +			dev_warn(dev, "unknown number of TSI temp registers for %s\n", data->name);
> +			num_reg_tsi_temp = 0;
> +			break;

Please drop the message. This is new functionality which should not
suddenly produce a warning for chips which possibly do not support those
registers in the first place. For users with those chips the warning
is just confusing.

Guenter