linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/2] hwmon: add fan speed monitoring driver for Surface devices

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Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2023 17:55:21 -0500
From: Ivor Wanders <ivor@...nders.net>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] hwmon: add fan speed monitoring driver for Surface devices

> No, sorry. Limit attributes are supposed to be used to program limits,
> not to report constant values to userspace

Thank you for this feedback, I've proposed improvements to the
documentation in [1] that clarify this. I will incorporate this feedback
and submit a second version.

~Ivor

[1]: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-hwmon/20231221225149.11295-1-ivor@iwanders.net/T/