Re: [PATCH 5/7] regulator: sy7636a: report the temperature
From: Andreas Kemnade
Date: Tue Oct 27 2026 - 17:38:00 EST
On Tue, 27 Oct 2026 10:18:52 +0100
Andreas Kemnade <andreas@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, 27 Oct 2026 07:32:14 +0000
> Pablo Mazzini <pmazzini@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Hi Guenter, Andreas,
> >
> > On Mon, Oct 26, 2026 at 07:35:24AM -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> > > This is going the wrong way. The correct solution would be to convert
> > > the hwmon driver to an auxiliary driver.
> >
> > Understood. In v2 the hwmon driver stays in drivers/hwmon and becomes an
> > auxiliary driver of the regulator, which binds the I2C device directly.
> >
> But that is a cleanup action, which is at least a separate patch (maybe
> replacing and exending your patch 6). So the other patches can go into
> their separate trees.
>
looked again, I was wrong here, vin-supply should be enabled before
i2c transfers, so we need the aux device approach.
Regards,
Andreas