linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] hwmon: (oxp-sensors) Add tt_toggle attribute on supported boards

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Message-ID: <94f78001-13df-8c39-4771-7842dc94195e@roeck-us.net>
Date:   Wed, 7 Jun 2023 10:33:11 -0700
From:   Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>
To:     Joaquin Aramendia <samsagax@...il.com>
Cc:     derekjohn.clark@...il.com, jdelvare@...e.com,
        linux-hwmon@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] hwmon: (oxp-sensors) Add tt_toggle attribute on supported
 boards

On 6/7/23 05:40, Joaquin Aramendia wrote:
> Hello again. And sorry for my late reply. I'm struggling to find a
> good solution to this functionality. It most definitely feels icky to
> be attached to the hwmon driver so it should be a different driver for
> those devices. Would misc be a good place for that single toggle? or
> maybe platform? The latter seems most fitting since is very device
> specific.
> 
>> You are attaching the attribute to the hwmon device. Moving the driver
>> to another directory would just be an attempt to avoid review by a
>> hwmon maintainer. Just for that reason I would NACK such an attempt.
> 
> By no means I intend to avoid review. Don't get me wrong. I'm trying
> to understand what the best practice would be in this scenario. The
> driver is part reverse engineering and part asking contacts from the
> manufacturer (who is no longer in the company so it is reverse
> engineering at this point). So any new functionality we find might be
> a different driver for what i gather since it is not related to
> hardware monitoring. The oxp-sensors as is now it is mostly done and
> it works well for the users.
> 

Why don't you just attach the attribute to the platform device as I
had suggested earlier ?

Guenter