From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2016 15:29:27 -0700 From: Mark Brown To: Thor Thayer Cc: Guenter Roeck , lee.jones@linaro.org, linus.walleij@linaro.org, gnurou@gmail.com, jdelvare@suse.com, robh+dt@kernel.org, pawel.moll@arm.com, mark.rutland@arm.com, ijc+devicetree@hellion.org.uk, dinguyen@opensource.altera.com, linux-gpio@vger.kernel.org, linux-hwmon@vger.kernel.org, devicetree@vger.kernel.org, lgirdwood@gmail.com Message-ID: <20160329222927.GS2350@sirena.org.uk> References: <1459278791-3646-1-git-send-email-tthayer@opensource.altera.com> <1459278791-3646-8-git-send-email-tthayer@opensource.altera.com> <20160329201648.GA30248@roeck-us.net> <56FAF70D.4010109@opensource.altera.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha256; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="wKbYzd8t8rt1PVqr" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <56FAF70D.4010109@opensource.altera.com> Subject: Re: [RFC 7/8] hwmon: Altera Arria10 System Resource Chip - HW Monitor List-ID: --wKbYzd8t8rt1PVqr Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Tue, Mar 29, 2016 at 04:43:41PM -0500, Thor Thayer wrote: > Yes, I see your point. In looking at the regulator drivers, I interpret > those as being controlled by the driver whereas this chip is passively > reporting status. If the device isn't doing regulation it's not a regulator. > After reading the referenced document, I agree that hwmon probably isn't > appropriate. However, the regulator doesn't seem appropriate either (the > only status appears to be tied to battery properties). We report status for regulators but that's tied to monitoring that's built into a device that does regulation. How about IIO or power supply? --wKbYzd8t8rt1PVqr Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iQEcBAEBCAAGBQJW+wHGAAoJECTWi3JdVIfQU6EH/0lenHgC0Sa1yadZvkoLzETz n7bhGzHq9X9kXQ+s0F9GnKbzGJuK2bolxVm6+QaO37J6wzNAMtX9PDKpWHOZpzxn GEAPys0I++0cPCTsP08Rf6F+LGv3j7bjX+/GRGktjjf+aN7b8UKCD0OiiI8rpPFN 90OfC2PQjQ86o9Mh2WcXfIkecqCF5qBLree3wrmAVJOjL+mFjyO5CER57SunYSuJ gtdguP6jwddoizhiOq0XhM6eKIhNqOgTwOWCnzAU65B1cSgbGE+jDecWHNAa2NaI shzw9eMgmahJ/LyV0wleV/i5d51LFMMFpJsQNGWLJqhSCG7iqKrNnaMf3WxJH+E= =4hgU -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --wKbYzd8t8rt1PVqr--