From: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
To: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
Cc: linux-hwmon@vger.kernel.org, Jean Delvare <jdelvare@suse.com>,
Zev Weiss <zev@bewilderbeest.net>,
Andrew Jeffery <andrew@aj.id.au>,
openbmc@lists.ozlabs.org, Liam Girdwood <lgirdwood@gmail.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Enabling pmbus power control
Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2021 12:38:10 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210330193810.GA235990@roeck-us.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210330180200.GK4976@sirena.org.uk>
On Tue, Mar 30, 2021 at 07:02:00PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 30, 2021 at 12:56:56PM -0500, Zev Weiss wrote:
>
> > Okay, to expand a bit on the description in my initial message -- we've
> > got a single chassis with multiple server boards and a single manager board
> > that handles, among other things, power control for the servers.
> > The manager board has one LM25066 for each attached server, which acts as
> > the "power switch" for that server. There thus really isn't any driver to
> > speak of for the downstream device.
>
> This sounds like you need a driver representing those server boards (or
> the slots they plug into perhaps) that represents everything about those
> boards to userspace, including power switching. I don't see why you
> wouldn't have a driver for that - it's a thing that physically exists
> and clearly has some software control, and you'd presumably also expect
> to represent some labelling about the slot as well.
Absolutely agree.
Thanks,
Guenter
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-03-30 19:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-03-30 8:17 Enabling pmbus power control Zev Weiss
2021-03-30 10:34 ` Guenter Roeck
2021-03-30 11:22 ` Mark Brown
2021-03-30 17:19 ` Zev Weiss
2021-03-30 17:42 ` Mark Brown
2021-03-30 17:56 ` Zev Weiss
2021-03-30 18:02 ` Mark Brown
2021-03-30 19:38 ` Guenter Roeck [this message]
2021-04-20 1:29 ` Zev Weiss
2021-04-20 3:36 ` Guenter Roeck
2021-04-20 5:50 ` Zev Weiss
2021-04-20 6:00 ` Guenter Roeck
2021-04-20 7:06 ` Zev Weiss
2021-04-20 10:52 ` Guenter Roeck
2021-04-20 15:19 ` Zev Weiss
2021-04-20 16:13 ` Mark Brown
2021-04-20 16:40 ` Zev Weiss
2021-04-20 17:15 ` Mark Brown
2021-04-20 18:54 ` Zev Weiss
2021-04-21 11:05 ` Mark Brown
2021-04-21 18:29 ` Zev Weiss
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