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([2600:1700:e321:62f0:329c:23ff:fee3:9d7c]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id h133-20020a62838b000000b0063b8a30b571sm9329133pfe.9.2023.04.25.07.34.25 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 bits=128/128); Tue, 25 Apr 2023 07:34:27 -0700 (PDT) Sender: Guenter Roeck Message-ID: Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2023 07:34:25 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:102.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/102.10.0 Content-Language: en-US To: Neha Malcom Francis , robh+dt@kernel.org, krzysztof.kozlowski+dt@linaro.org, devicetree@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, jdelvare@suse.com, linux-hwmon@vger.kernel.org Cc: nm@ti.com, vigneshr@ti.com, u-kumar1@ti.com, kristo@kernel.org References: <20230424105011.70674-1-n-francis@ti.com> <705557cd-0a60-3cda-d78b-d78e2faef856@ti.com> From: Guenter Roeck Subject: Re: [PATCH RESEND v3 0/3] Add support for ESM In-Reply-To: <705557cd-0a60-3cda-d78b-d78e2faef856@ti.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-hwmon@vger.kernel.org On 4/25/23 01:49, Neha Malcom Francis wrote: > Hi Guenter > > On 24/04/23 20:27, Guenter Roeck wrote: >> On 4/24/23 03:50, Neha Malcom Francis wrote: >>> Resending as no major changes, commit subject change only. >>> >> >> Maybe you consider changing the subject of the bindings from "misc" >> to "hwmon" as not being a major change, but it made me aware that you >> are trying to sneak bindings which in my opinion don't belong there >> into the hwmon bindings directory. This is not a hardware monitoring >> device, it doesn't have anything to do with hardware monitoring, and the >> bindings do not belong into bindings/hwmon/. >> > > I understand, it's a thin line across which I pushed ESM into hwmon; my reasoning was ESM also actively looks for signals that it aggregates, and is overall monitoring the device health. But if there was an option, in order of fitting: fault/ > misc/ > hwmon/ > That is really a stretch. It doesn't monitor anything. It is a signal routing mechanism. With that logic every transistor would be a hardware monitoring device. Guenter