linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 2/4] hwmon: (core) Add support for humidity min/max alarm

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Date:   Wed, 15 Nov 2023 14:56:23 +0100
From:   Javier Carrasco <javier.carrasco.cruz@...il.com>
To:     Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>
Cc:     Rob Herring <robh+dt@...nel.org>,
        Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski+dt@...aro.org>,
        Conor Dooley <conor+dt@...nel.org>,
        Jean Delvare <jdelvare@...e.com>,
        Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
        Liam Girdwood <lgirdwood@...il.com>,
        Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>, Rob Herring <robh@...nel.org>,
        devicetree@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-hwmon@...r.kernel.org, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/4] hwmon: (core) Add support for humidity min/max
 alarm

On 15.11.23 14:25, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 09, 2023 at 07:24:00AM +0100, Javier Carrasco wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> On 09.11.23 01:02, Guenter Roeck wrote:
>>> On 11/8/23 07:37, Javier Carrasco wrote:
>>>> Add min_alarm and max_alarm attributes for humidityX to support devices
>>>> that can generate these alarms.
>>>> Such attributes already exist for other magnitudes such as tempX.
>>>>
>>>> Tested with a ChipCap 2 temperature-humidity sensor.
>>>>
>>>
>>> No objection, but the new attributes also need to be added to the ABI
>>> documentation at
>>> Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-hwmon and
>>> Documentation/hwmon/sysfs-interface.rst
>>>
>>> Which made me notice that humidityX_alarm isn't documented either.
>>> Please document that attribute as well while you are at it.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Guenter
>>>
>> Actually there are several attributes without ABI documentation or at
>> least the attributes enum is much larger than the objects in the ABI
>> documentation (in testing/sysfs-class-hwmon).
>> For humidity there is only input, enable, rated_min and rated_max. Are
>> some attributes not described for a good reason or should all be
>> documented? the current humidity_attributes contains:
>>
>> hwmon_humidity_enable -> documented in sysfs-class-hwmon
>> hwmon_humidity_input -> documented in sysfs-class-hwmon
>> hwmon_humidity_label
>> hwmon_humidity_min
>> hwmon_humidity_min_hyst
>> hwmon_humidity_max
>> hwmon_humidity_max_hyst
>> hwmon_humidity_alarm
>> hwmon_humidity_fault
>> hwmon_humidity_rated_min -> documented in sysfs-class-hwmon
>> hwmon_humidity_rated_max -> documented in sysfs-class-hwmon
>>
>> I could not find the temperature counterparts of my new additions
>> (temp_min_alarm and temp_max_alarm).
>>
>> Should all be added to sysfs-class-hwmon or am I missing some other
>> document? I am alright adding the ones I mentioned.
>>
> 
> They should all be documented. It would be great if you volunteer
> to add the missing ones, but that won't be a mandate. I just don't want
> the situation to get worse.
> 
> Thanks,
> Guenter

I will document them in a separate series, so the (probably) long review
of the original device driver will not have any effect on this task,
which has nothing to do with the ChipCap 2 anyways.
I will start asap.

Best regards,
Javier Carrasco