Re: [PATCH] hwmon: add support for SMSC EMC2305/03/02/01 fan controller

From: Rob Herring
Date: Tue Sep 29 2020 - 15:49:41 EST


On Mon, Sep 28, 2020 at 06:43:26PM +0800, Biwen Li wrote:
> From: Reinhard Pfau <pfau@xxxxxxxx>
>
> Add support for SMSC EMC2305, EMC2303, EMC2302, EMC2301 fan controller
> chips.
> The driver primary supports the EMC2305 chip which provides RPM-based
> PWM control and monitoring for up to 5 fans.
>
> According to the SMSC data sheets the EMC2303, EMC2302 and EMC2301 chips
> have basically the same functionality and register layout, but support
> less fans and (in case of EMC2302 and EMC2301) less possible I2C addresses.
> The driver supports them, too.
>
> The driver supports configuration via devicetree. This can also be used
> to restrict the fans exposed via sysfs (see doc for details).
>
> Signed-off-by: Reinhard Pfau <pfau@xxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Biwen Li <biwen.li@xxxxxxx>
> ---
> .../devicetree/bindings/hwmon/emc2305.txt | 33 +

Split to a separate patch and should be in DT schema format.
checkpatch.pl will tell you both of these things.

> Documentation/hwmon/emc2305.rst | 34 +
> MAINTAINERS | 8 +
> drivers/hwmon/Kconfig | 10 +
> drivers/hwmon/Makefile | 1 +
> drivers/hwmon/emc2305.c | 689 ++++++++++++++++++
> 6 files changed, 775 insertions(+)
> create mode 100644 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/hwmon/emc2305.txt
> create mode 100644 Documentation/hwmon/emc2305.rst
> create mode 100644 drivers/hwmon/emc2305.c