linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 01/15] drivers: thermal: tsens: Get rid of id field in tsens

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Date:   Mon, 19 Aug 2019 13:55:40 +0200
From:   Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@...aro.org>
To:     Amit Kucheria <amit.kucheria@...aro.org>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-arm-msm@...r.kernel.org,
        bjorn.andersson@...aro.org, edubezval@...il.com,
        andy.gross@...aro.org, Andy Gross <agross@...nel.org>,
        Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>,
        Rob Herring <robh+dt@...nel.org>,
        Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@...el.com>
Cc:     linux-pm@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/15] drivers: thermal: tsens: Get rid of id field in
 tsens_sensor

On 26/07/2019 00:18, Amit Kucheria wrote:
> There are two fields - id and hw_id - to track what sensor an action was
> to performed on. This was because the sensors connected to a TSENS IP
> might not be contiguous i.e. 1, 2, 4, 5 with 3 being skipped.
> 
> This causes confusion in the code which uses hw_id sometimes and id
> other times (tsens_get_temp, tsens_get_trend).
> 
> Switch to only using the hw_id field to track the physical ID of the
> sensor. When we iterate through all the sensors connected to an IP
> block, we use an index i to loop through the list of sensors, and then
> return the actual hw_id that is registered on that index.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Amit Kucheria <amit.kucheria@...aro.org>

Reviewed-by: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@...aro.org>




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