Re: [PATCH 2/3] hwmon: Driver for OMAP3 temperature sensor

[Guenter Roeck]

On 01/18/2015 12:33 PM, Pavel Machek wrote:

> > > > Pavel,
> > > >
> > > > can you look into the omap4 thermal driver to see if it can be used ?
> > >
> > > After some fixes... yes, it seems to be same hardware.
> > So this should be the way to go, but then we have others claim that
> > it should not be done because the OMAP3 sensors are too unreliable
> > to use for thermal decisions. Not really sure where that leaves us.
> > I am kind of opposed to have similar drivers for similar chips
> > in two different subsystems.
> >
> > Is it possible to add the patch below to the omap thermal driver
> > and not use it for thermal decisions ?
>
> Well... noone forces you to enable the driver, and I don't think it
> will do any thermal decisions on N900 as it is ... so we should be ok.
>
> Plus, it seems to work reasonably well (say +- 5 C), so situation does
> not seem to be as bad as TI claims.
>
> Nokia was actually using it in production.
Ok, I'll assume that omap3 support will be added to the omap thermal driver.

Thanks,
Guenter

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