Re: [PATCH] thermal: brcmstb: enable hwmon

[Stefan Wahren]

Hi Chen-Yu,

Am 30.10.19 um 17:38 schrieb Chen-Yu Tsai:
> From: Chen-Yu Tsai <wens@xxxxxxxx>
>
> By defaul of-based thermal driver do not have hwmon entries registered.
>
> Do this explicitly so users can use standard hwmon interfaces and tools
> to read the temperature.
>
> This is based on similar changes for bcm2835_thermal in commit
> d56c19d07e0b ("thermal: bcm2835: enable hwmon explicitly").
>
> Signed-off-by: Chen-Yu Tsai <wens@xxxxxxxx>
> ---
>
> This patch was only compile tested. A similar patch [1] was submitted to
> the downstream kernel, which I did build and actually run on a Raspberry
> Pi 4.

just a note: from my understanding [2] the brcmstb_thermal isn't the
right driver for BCM2711. Please consider the current downstream
solution for BCM2711 support as a quick hack to avoid writing a new
thermal driver. But must confess that i didn't test Florian's recent
changes yet.

Regards
Stefan

[2] -
https://github.com/raspberrypi/linux/issues/3101#issuecomment-527554223

>
> This one for mainline is much simpler, as it does not need to deal with
> the error path or device removal, due to the use of devres.
>
>  [1] https://github.com/raspberrypi/linux/pull/3307
>
> ---
>  drivers/thermal/broadcom/brcmstb_thermal.c | 8 ++++++++
>  1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)