Re: [PATCH V4 2/2] thermal: generic-adc: Add ADC based thermal sensor driver

[Eduardo Valentin]

On Thu, Apr 21, 2016 at 06:42:16AM +0530, Laxman Dewangan wrote:
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> On Thursday 21 April 2016 05:13 AM, Eduardo Valentin wrote:
> >Laxman,
> >
> >On Tue, Apr 19, 2016 at 12:52:01PM +0530, Laxman Dewangan wrote:
> >>In some of platform, thermal sensors like NCT thermistors are
> >>connected to the one of ADC channel. The temperature is read by
> >>reading the voltage across the sensor resistance via ADC. Lookup
> >>table for ADC read value to temperature is referred to get
> >>temperature. ADC is read via IIO framework.
> >>
> >>Add support for thermal sensor driver which read the voltage across
> >>sensor resistance from ADC through IIO framework.
> >>
> >>Signed-off-by: Laxman Dewangan <ldewangan@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >I really like this driver, as I mentioned  before. Just one comment
> >though.
> >
> >>+
> >>+	gti->tz_dev = thermal_zone_of_sensor_register(&pdev->dev, 0,
> >>+						      gti, &gadc_thermal_ops);
> >Why not using the devm_ version you introduced?
> >
> >Any particular reason?
> >
> 
> Yaah, the reason is just to maintain the proper sequence in releasing of
> resource during driver unbinding.
> 
> Sequence in probe are:
>         iio_channel_get()
>         thermal_zone_of_sensor_register()
> 
> and on release, sensor should be released first before iio channel.
> As of now, we do not have devm_iio_channel_get() [I already post patch and
> it is accepted by Jonathan in iio sub system] and hence I can not use the
> devm_ for sensor register to avoid race.
> 
> However, once the devm_ for iio channel get available in all subsystem (may
> be in next release), I will post the patch to use devm_.
> 
> Currently, we can go with these APIs.

Ok. We can have it in this way then.

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