From: "Barnabás Pőcze" <pobrn@protonmail.com>
To: "linux-hwmon@vger.kernel.org" <linux-hwmon@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: [QUESTION] fan rpm hwmon driver
Date: Sat, 04 Jul 2020 19:50:21 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <xU_nzuNaKzomGSEsIdtEGvDVgR0MuUoti45TC5WzkVu0FscRsOEp7dzY4tGOoUkvrG9QPJethyosMSnxcXFuE-xcpqJ6DQwfnPkPlFiEcbY=@protonmail.com> (raw)
Hello all,
I am completely new to Linux kernel development. I have written a kernel module for my laptop that integrates the fan speeds available in the embedded controller memory into the hwmon subsystem.
My first question would be: can such a driver be merged into the mainline? I ask this because it is a device specific driver, and I am not sure if such drivers are wanted in the mainline.
Depending on the answer to my first question, my second question is: where should such a driver reside in the source tree? Initially, I thought of drivers/hwmon, but that seems to be occupied by drivers for external(?) devices (I am not sure, but that is the idea I get). So I am now thinking of drivers/platform/x86. However, I have failed to find any fan hwmon drivers there, so I am not sure about that one, either.
I send my mail to the hwmon mailing list, because after all, it is about a hwmon module, but if it is not the correct place, please point me in the right direction.
I would greatly appreciate if anyone could help me. Thank you for your time.
Barnabás Pőcze
next reply other threads:[~2020-07-04 19:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-07-04 19:50 Barnabás Pőcze [this message]
2020-07-04 20:54 ` [QUESTION] fan rpm hwmon driver Guenter Roeck
2020-07-04 21:25 ` Barnabás Pőcze
2020-07-04 22:44 ` Guenter Roeck
2020-07-04 23:08 ` Barnabás Pőcze
2020-07-04 23:56 ` Guenter Roeck
2020-07-05 11:34 ` Barnabás Pőcze
2020-07-05 13:23 ` Guenter Roeck
2020-07-05 14:43 ` Barnabás Pőcze
2020-07-05 15:15 ` Guenter Roeck
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