Re: [PATCH 2/3] hwmon: (nct6775) Implement custom lock by ACPI mutex.

[Eugene Shalygin]

On Thu, 25 Nov 2021 at 20:54, Guenter Roeck <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> We won't be heving two drivers with the same functionality. Give me one
> reason why I should not drop the wmi driver (or both of them; I am not
> sure which one we are talking about here).
>
> On top of all that, this submission isn't about any of the wmi drivers,
> but for the nct6775 driver, which just adds to the confusion.

Let me try to explain once again, please. I began to dig into the ASUS
sensors and how to read their values and at first found the WMI
function to do that, wrote a driver and Denis submitted it as
asus_wmi_ec_sensors. Now, I know a better and simpler way to read
those sensors, which uses ACPI mutex directly. I suggested Denis to
use the mutex way for the nct6775 driver for motherboards without WMI
functions to read from the nct chip. With that change entering the nct
driver, I want to submit my updated driver for EC sensors, replacing
the asus_wmi_ec_sensors code (which is essentially my old driver).

So, now I ask to rename asus_wmi_sensors to asus_ec_sensors (source
file and KBuild options) already before 5.16 is released, because the
updated code, which I will submit later, and which will replace that
in asus_wmi_ec_sensors.c, does not use WMI.

Hope this clarifies my request and intention.

Best regards,
Eugene