Re: [PATCH 1/7] iio: adc: sun4i-gpadc: rework for support multiple thermal sensor

[Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@bootlin.com>]

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On Mon, May 06, 2019 at 07:55:25PM +0200, Ondřej Jirman wrote:
> On Tue, May 07, 2019 at 01:08:39AM +0800, Frank Lee wrote:
> > On Tue, May 7, 2019 at 12:52 AM Icenowy Zheng <icenowy@aosc.io> wrote:
> > >
> > > 在 2019-05-06一的 14:28 +0200，Maxime Ripard写道：
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > On Sun, May 05, 2019 at 04:22:15PM +0100, Jonathan Cameron wrote:
> > > > > On Fri,  3 May 2019 03:28:07 -0400
> > > > > Yangtao Li <tiny.windzz@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > > For some SOCs, there are more than one thermal sensor, and there
> > > > > > are
> > > > > > currently four sensors on the A80. So we need to do some work in
> > > > > > order
> > > > > > to support multiple thermal sensors:
> > > > > >
> > > > > >   1) add sensor_count in gpadc_data.
> > > > > >   2) introduce sun4i_sensor_tzd in sun4i_gpadc_iio, to support
> > > > > > multiple
> > > > > >      thermal_zone_device and distinguish between different
> > > > > > sensors.
> > > > > >   3) modify read temperature and initialization function.
> > > > >
> > > > > This comment doesn't mention the devm change. If it had it would
> > > > > have
> > > > > raised immediate alarm bells.
> > > > >
> > > > > I'm also not keen on the web of pointers that this driver is
> > > > > steadily
> > > > > evolving.  I can't immediately see how to reduce that complexity
> > > > > however.
> > > >
> > > > So I might be responsible for that, and looking back, this has been a
> > > > mistake.
> > > >
> > > > This driver was initally put together to support a controller found
> > > > in
> > > > older (A10 up to A31) Allwinner SoCs. This controller had an ADC
> > > > driver that could be operated as a touchscreen controller, and was
> > > > providing a CPU temperature sensor and a general purpose ADC.
> > > >
> > > > However, we already had a driver for that controller in drivers/input
> > > > to report the CPU temperature, and the one in IIO was introduced to
> > > > support the general purpose ADC (and the CPU temperature). The long
> > > > term goal was to add the touchscreen feature as well eventually so
> > > > that we could remove the one in drivers/input. That didn't happen.
> > > >
> > > > At the same time, the Allwinner hardware slowly evolved to remove the
> > > > touchscreen and ADC features, and only keep the CPU temperature
> > > > readout. It then evolved further on to support multiple temperatures
> > > > (for different clusters, the GPU, and so on).
> > > >
> > > > So, today, we're in a situation where I was pushing everything into
> > > > that IIO drivers since there was similiraties between all the
> > > > generations, but the fact that we have to support so many odd cases
> > > > (DT bindings compatibility, controllers with and without ADC, etc)
> > > > that it becomes a real mess.
> > > >
> > > > And that mess isn't really used by anybody, since we want to have the
> > > > touchscreen.
> > > >
> > > > There's only one SoC that is supported only by that driver, which is
> > > > the A33 that only had a CPU temperature readout, and is still pretty
> > > > similar to the latest SoC from Allwinner (that is supported by this
> > > > series).
> > > >
> > > > I guess, for everyone's sanity and in order to not stall this
> > > > further,
> > > > it would just be better to create an hwmon driver for the A33 (and
> > > > onwards, including the H6) for the SoC that just have the temperature
> > > > readout feature. And for the older SoC, we just keep the older driver
> > > > under input/. Once the A33 is supported, we'll remove the driver in
> > > > IIO (and the related bits in drivers/mfd).
> >
> > a hwmon driver or a thermal driver？
> >
> > >
> > > I think a thermal driver is better.
> >
> > This is what I hope to see a few months ago.
> >
> > >
> > > Other SoCs' thermal sensor drivers are all thermal drivers.
> > >
> > > >
> > > > Armbian already has a driver for that they never upstreamed iirc, so
> > > > it might be a good starting point, and we would add the support for
> > > > the H6. How does that sound?
> > >
> > > I think the developer abandoned to upstream it because of the previous
> > > problem ;-)
> > >
> > > Maybe it can be taken and add A33&H6 support.
> >
> > If OK, I am going to start some thermal driver work this weekend.  : )
>
> There are plenty of thermal drivers flying around, with varying levels
> of support for various SoCs:
>
> - H3/H5: https://megous.com/git/linux/commit/?h=ths-5.1&id=b8e20c5da7a00b3a3fa1b274fc8d5bea95872b0a
> - A83T: https://megous.com/git/linux/commit/?h=ths-5.1&id=796dff9a946fd475cc1e4bb948a723ea841c640c
> - H6: https://megous.com/git/linux/commit/?h=opi3-5.1&id=aeab762c19b4aa228a295258c9d6b2e1f143bf86
>
> For H3/H5 Icenowy also tried to upstream some variant of my THS driver, with
> better SID/calibration data reading support.
>
> I'd suggest starting with the H6 driver above (as that implements the
> calibration data readout correctly), and make it so that it can support multiple
> SoCs.

Yeah, that seems like a good plan

Maxime

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