linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v1] ARM: dts: meson: drop iio-hwmon in favour of generic-adc-thermal

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Message-ID: <CAFBinCDQojLyznKTxn+fGgq21Wd+eFFjTPc=a8Dw+xMnwy1S2A@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2026 10:07:48 +0100
From: Martin Blumenstingl <martin.blumenstingl@...glemail.com>
To: linux-amlogic@...ts.infradead.org, neil.armstrong@...aro.org
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, 
	devicetree@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1] ARM: dts: meson: drop iio-hwmon in favour of generic-adc-thermal

Hi Neil,

On Sat, Nov 8, 2025 at 10:15 PM Martin Blumenstingl
<martin.blumenstingl@...glemail.com> wrote:
>
> Commit 85b21fdec906e ("thermal/drivers/generic-adc: Register thermal
> zones as hwmon sensors") made "generic-adc-thermal" also register hwmon
> attributes. That means we now have the temperature sensor shown twice:
> - once from iio-hwmon
> - and another time from generic-adc-thermal
>
> We need the latter for SoC temperature control, so simply drop the
> former so userspace doesn't see duplicate sensors. Also
> generic-adc-thermal provides a better name to userspace
> ("soc_thermal-virtual-0") than iio_hwmon.
>
> Signed-off-by: Martin Blumenstingl <martin.blumenstingl@...glemail.com>
gentle ping on this