linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/2] net: dsa: register hwmon for any provided function

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Message-ID: <164492855.190846.1429281904066.JavaMail.zimbra@savoirfairelinux.com>
Date:	Fri, 17 Apr 2015 10:45:04 -0400 (EDT)
From:	Vivien Didelot <vivien.didelot@...oirfairelinux.com>
To:	Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>,
	kernel@...oirfairelinux.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] net: dsa: register hwmon for any provided function

Hi Guenter,

> >>>           switch (index) {
> >>> +        case 0: /* temp1_input */
> >>> +                if (drv->get_temp)
> >>> +                        mode |= S_IRUGO;
> >>
> >> This should be mandatory. Sorry, I don't really understand what you
> >> are trying to accomplish here.
> >>
> >> Can you give me a real world example where a chip would support
> >> setting a limit but not reading it ?
> >
> > I have no such example. I just did not see why this couldn't be
> > allowed (e.g. setting only set_temp_limit and get_temp_alarm looks
> > fine to me).  But if you say that get_temp should be mandatory, I'm
> > OK with that.
> >
> write-only attributes are not defined in the hwmon ABI. If the
> 'sensors' command encounters such an attribute, it will create an
> error message each time it executes. That doesn't sound very useful to
> me.

Ok, good to know.

> If a chip - for whatever reason - does not have a limit register but
> an alarm register or flag, its temperature limit is usually hard-coded
> and can be reported this way (the AMD temperature sensor driver does
> this, for example). If there is ever a need to support the
> alarm-register-only situation for some odd reason, we can add the code
> at the time.  For now, it just seems to me that you are adding
> complexity to solve some theoretic problem which is very unlikely to
> occur in the real world.

You're right, this change is not necessary.

> > The primary goal of this patchset was to use DEVICE_ATTR_RW to
> > declare temp1_max, instead of reflecting the minimal permissions
> > needed.
> >
> Then why don't you just do that and nothing else ? The goal should be
> to simplify code, not to make it more complicated. If the result isn't
> less code, I don't think it is worth it.

Indeed, I'll rework this patch then.

Thanks for the review,
-v
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