linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 3/3] hwmon: (pmbus/core): Implement IRQ support

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Message-ID: <7ce64ea0-f595-a5b6-a810-2bc9133b5386@roeck-us.net>
Date:   Thu, 24 Nov 2022 06:07:55 -0800
From:   Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>
To:     Naresh Solanki <naresh.solanki@...ements.com>,
        linux-hwmon@...r.kernel.org, Jean Delvare <jdelvare@...e.com>
Cc:     broonie@...nel.org,
        Patrick Rudolph <patrick.rudolph@...ements.com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] hwmon: (pmbus/core): Implement IRQ support

On 11/24/22 00:56, Naresh Solanki wrote:
> Hi Guenter,
> 
> On 22-11-2022 10:32 pm, Guenter Roeck wrote:
>> On 11/22/22 05:50, Naresh Solanki wrote:
>>> From: Patrick Rudolph <patrick.rudolph@...ements.com>
>>>
>>> Implement IRQ support to monitor PMBUS regulator events.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Patrick Rudolph <patrick.rudolph@...ements.com>
>>> Signed-off-by: Naresh Solanki <Naresh.Solanki@...ements.com>
>>
>> Adding a PMBus interrupt handler should be generic and also handle hwmon
>> specific events. It should report any status changes as sysfs attribute
>> notifications.
> This handler scope is to address regulator faults.
> 

Maybe that is the use case from your perspective, but this is primarily
a hardware monitoring driver and needs to primarily serve its hardware
monitoring functionality.

Guenter