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Message-ID: <1a30fc8b-b57e-de40-d396-892b55649a77@linaro.org>
Date: Mon, 1 May 2023 12:05:49 +0200
From: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski@...aro.org>
To: Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>,
Neha Malcom Francis <n-francis@...com>, robh+dt@...nel.org,
krzysztof.kozlowski+dt@...aro.org, devicetree@...r.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
jdelvare@...e.com, linux-hwmon@...r.kernel.org
Cc: nm@...com, vigneshr@...com, u-kumar1@...com, kristo@...nel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH RESEND v3 0/3] Add support for ESM
On 25/04/2023 16:34, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> On 4/25/23 01:49, Neha Malcom Francis wrote:
>> Hi Guenter
>>
>> On 24/04/23 20:27, Guenter Roeck wrote:
>>> On 4/24/23 03:50, Neha Malcom Francis wrote:
>>>> Resending as no major changes, commit subject change only.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Maybe you consider changing the subject of the bindings from "misc"
>>> to "hwmon" as not being a major change, but it made me aware that you
>>> are trying to sneak bindings which in my opinion don't belong there
>>> into the hwmon bindings directory. This is not a hardware monitoring
>>> device, it doesn't have anything to do with hardware monitoring, and the
>>> bindings do not belong into bindings/hwmon/.
>>>
>>
>> I understand, it's a thin line across which I pushed ESM into hwmon; my reasoning was ESM also actively looks for signals that it aggregates, and is overall monitoring the device health. But if there was an option, in order of fitting: fault/ > misc/ > hwmon/
>>
>
> That is really a stretch. It doesn't monitor anything. It is a signal
> routing mechanism.
>
> With that logic every transistor would be a hardware monitoring device.
Then let's move it to misc/ as I don't have other ideas for the placement.
Best regards,
Krzysztof
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