Re: [PATCH 2/2] hwmon: (ina3221) Add operating mode support

From: Nicolin Chen
Date: Thu Oct 11 2018 - 15:37:07 EST


On Thu, Oct 11, 2018 at 12:31:52PM -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote:

> > One more question here, and this might sound a bit abuse of using
> > the existing hwmon ABI: would it sound plausible to you that the
> > driver powers down the chip when all three channels get disabled
> > via in[123]_enable nodes? :)
> >
>
> I would not call that an abuse, no.

Hmm..do you mean that you aren't in favor of powering down the chip
after all channels get disabled?

I was thinking about having pm_runtime_get_sync()/put() for channel
enabling/disabling routine of in[123]_enable.

Thanks
Nicolin