Re: [PATCH v4 9/9] w1: ds2438: support for writing to offset register

[Greg KH]

On Mon, Apr 05, 2021 at 09:44:01AM -0300, Luiz Sampaio wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 05, 2021 at 01:04:59PM +0200, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Mon, Apr 05, 2021 at 07:50:09AM -0300, Luiz Sampaio wrote:
> > > Added a sysfs entry to support writing to the offset register on page1.
> > > This register is used to calibrate the chip canceling offset errors in the
> > > current ADC. This means that, over time, reading the IAD register will not
> > > return the correct current measurement, it will have an offset. Writing to
> > > the offset register if the two's complement of the current register while
> > > passing zero current to the load will calibrate the measurements. This
> > > change was tested on real hardware and it was able to calibrate the chip
> > > correctly.
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Luiz Sampaio <sampaio.ime@xxxxxxxxx>
> > > ---
> > >  Documentation/w1/slaves/w1_ds2438.rst | 11 +++++-
> > >  drivers/w1/slaves/w1_ds2438.c         | 49 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> > >  2 files changed, 59 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > 
> > In this, and the previous patch, you added new sysfs files, but no
> > update to Documentation/ABI/ for them.  Please fix that up.
> > 
> > thanks,
> > 
> > greg k-h
> 
> Hello! I'm sorry about some errors, this is my first patch and I'm not sure about some things in the documentation. I really appreciate the responses and guidance.

No problem, again you should try wrapping your email lines :)

> The file I need to add to Documentation/ABI/ is going to be in testing or stable? And the file I need to create can be called, for instance, sysfs-driver-w1_ds2438?

stable I guess as you know this is what you want to do.

And the file name seems right, thanks.

greg k-h