Re: [PATCH v2 2/3] hwmon: Add update_interval_us chip attribute

From: Guenter Roeck

Date: Mon Jun 08 2026 - 12:47:32 EST


On Mon, Jun 08, 2026 at 03:03:55PM +0200, Ferdinand Schwenk wrote:
> From: Ferdinand Schwenk <ferdinand.schwenk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Some hardware monitoring chips support update intervals below one
> millisecond. The existing update_interval attribute uses millisecond
> granularity, which causes sub-millisecond steps to round to the same
> value and become inaccessible from userspace.
>
> Introduce update_interval_us, a companion chip-level attribute that
> expresses the same update interval in microseconds. Drivers
> implementing this attribute should also implement update_interval for
> compatibility with millisecond-based userspace interfaces.

Unfortunately, Signed-off-by: is missing. Otherwise looks good.

This also affects the other patches of the series.

Guenter