Re: [ASUS EC Sensors V6 v6 0/3]
From: Oleksandr Natalenko
Date: Mon Jan 17 2022 - 02:22:05 EST
Hello.
On neděle 16. ledna 2022 21:18:38 CET Eugene Shalygin wrote:
> This patchset replaces the HWMON asus_wmi_ec_sensors driver with
> an implementation that does not use WMI but queries the embedded
> controller directly.
>
> That provides two enhancements: sensor reading became quicker (on some
> systems or kernel configuration it took almost a full second to read
> all the sensors, that transfers less than 15 bytes of data), the driver
> became more fexible. The driver now relies on ACPI mutex to lock access
> to the EC, in the same way as the WMI DSDT code does.
>
> Changes in v6:
> - Fixed hwmon device name replacing dashes with underscores.
> - Removed module verion.
> - Fixed condition for asus_wmi_ec_Sensors in KBuild.
For the series:
Tested-by: Oleksandr Natalenko <oleksandr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Changes in v5:
> - Place the sensors bitset directly into the driver_data field of the
> dmi_system_id struct.
> - Replace doc comments with regular ones.
>
> Changes in v4:
> - Deprecate the wmi driver rather than removing it.
>
> Changes in v3:
> - Remove BIOS version checks and BIOS version dependent mutex path.
>
> Changes in v2:
> - Replace sensor flags enum with bitset
> - Replace module init/probe functions with module_platform_driver_probe
> and ask the platform drivers framework to load the driver when ACPI
> EC is found (ACPI ID "PNP0C09").
> - Extend board data with BIOS version attribute for the mutex path to be
> BIOS version dependent.
> - Add module parameter to override the mutex path.
>
> Eugene Shalygin (3):
> hwmon: (asus-ec-sensors) add driver for ASUS EC
> hwmon: (asus-ec-sensors) update documentation
> hwmon: deprecate asis_wmi_ec_sensors driver
>
> Documentation/hwmon/asus_ec_sensors.rst | 51 ++
> Documentation/hwmon/asus_wmi_ec_sensors.rst | 38 --
> MAINTAINERS | 6 +
> drivers/hwmon/Kconfig | 16 +-
> drivers/hwmon/Makefile | 1 +
> drivers/hwmon/asus-ec-sensors.c | 690 ++++++++++++++++++++
> 6 files changed, 763 insertions(+), 39 deletions(-)
> create mode 100644 Documentation/hwmon/asus_ec_sensors.rst
> delete mode 100644 Documentation/hwmon/asus_wmi_ec_sensors.rst
> create mode 100644 drivers/hwmon/asus-ec-sensors.c
Thanks.
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Oleksandr Natalenko (post-factum)