netdev - Re: [PATCH RFC 1/2] hwmon: Add support for power min, lcrit, min_alarm and lcrit

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Message-ID: <20180629171220.GA7470@roeck-us.net>
Date:   Fri, 29 Jun 2018 10:12:20 -0700
From:   Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>
To:     Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
Cc:     netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>,
        Russell King <rmk+kernel@....linux.org.uk>,
        vadimp@...lanox.com, linux-hwmon@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC 1/2] hwmon: Add support for power min, lcrit,
 min_alarm and lcrit_alarm

On Fri, Jun 29, 2018 at 09:21:56AM +0200, Andrew Lunn wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 28, 2018 at 03:42:36PM -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> > On Thu, Jun 28, 2018 at 10:41:14PM +0200, Andrew Lunn wrote:
> > > Some sensors support reporting minimal and lower critical power, as
> > > well as alarms when these thresholds are reached. Add support for
> > > these attributes to the hwmon core.
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
> > 
> > I am inclined to accept this patch immediately. I'll do that
> > in the next couple of days unless someone gives me a good reason
> > not to.
> 
> Hi Guenter
> 
> We need to watch out for merge dependencies. If you take it, you
> probably should also take the second patch into your tree as
> well. Otherwise, you need a stable branch DaveM can pull into net-next
> if he takes the second patch.
> 
Good point. I don't have anything queued for hwmon.c, so it should be ok
for the patch to go through networking. I'll Ack it when the time comes.

> I also have a patch to lm-sensors sensors, so it prints these
> values. I will create a github pull request.
> 
Excellent.

Thanks,
Guenter