netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next v2 3/3] net: phy: realtek: add hwmon support for temp sensor on RTL822x

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Message-ID: <9baf12f2-1e15-4a94-96df-0016379f1d9a@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2025 21:12:59 +0100
From: Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@...il.com>
To: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>
Cc: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>, Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
 David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
 Simon Horman <horms@...nel.org>,
 Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@...linux.org.uk>,
 Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>, "netdev@...r.kernel.org"
 <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, linux-hwmon@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v2 3/3] net: phy: realtek: add hwmon support for
 temp sensor on RTL822x

On 21.01.2025 17:10, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
>     Hi Heiner,
> 
> CC hwmon
> 
> On Sat, 11 Jan 2025, Heiner Kallweit wrote:
>> This adds hwmon support for the temperature sensor on RTL822x.
>> It's available on the standalone versions of the PHY's, and on
>> the integrated PHY's in RTL8125B/RTL8125D/RTL8126.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@...il.com>
> 
> Thanks for your patch, which is now commit 33700ca45b7d2e16
> ("net: phy: realtek: add hwmon support for temp sensor on
> RTL822x") in net-next.
> 
>> --- a/drivers/net/phy/realtek/Kconfig
>> +++ b/drivers/net/phy/realtek/Kconfig
>> @@ -3,3 +3,9 @@ config REALTEK_PHY
>>     tristate "Realtek PHYs"
>>     help
>>       Currently supports RTL821x/RTL822x and fast ethernet PHYs
>> +
>> +config REALTEK_PHY_HWMON
>> +    def_bool REALTEK_PHY && HWMON
>> +    depends on !(REALTEK_PHY=y && HWMON=m)
>> +    help
>> +      Optional hwmon support for the temperature sensor
> 
> So this is optional, but as the symbol is invisible, it cannot be
> disabled by the user. Is that intentional?
> 
Well, it isn't intentional in either direction.
Thanks for the hint, I should make it user-visible.

> Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
> 
>                         Geert
> 
> -- 
> Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@...ux-m68k.org
> 
> In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But
> when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that.
>                                 -- Linus Torvalds
>