Re: [PATCH v2 7/8] hwmon: (scmi) Register explicitly with Thermal Framework

[Sudeep Holla]

On Mon, Oct 31, 2022 at 07:00:21AM -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 31, 2022 at 01:25:23PM +0000, Sudeep Holla wrote:
> > On Mon, Oct 31, 2022 at 11:40:18AM +0000, Cristian Marussi wrote:
> > > Available sensors are enumerated and reported by the SCMI platform server
> > > using a 16bit identification number; not all such sensors are of a type
> > > supported by hwmon subsystem and, among the supported ones, only a subset
> > > could be temperature sensors that have to be registered with the Thermal
> > > Framework.
> > > Potential clashes between hwmon channels indexes and the underlying real
> > > sensors IDs do not play well with the hwmon<-->thermal bridge automatic
> > > registration routines and could need a sensible number of fake dummy
> > > sensors to be made up in order to keep indexes and IDs in sync.
> > > 
> > > Avoid to use the hwmon<-->thermal bridge dropping the HWMON_C_REGISTER_TZ
> > > attribute and instead explicit register temperature sensors directly with
> > > the Thermal Framework.
> > >
> > 
> > Hi Guenter,
> > 
> > FWIW from scmi perspective,
> > 
> > Acked-by: Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@xxxxxxx>
> > 
> > I was about to ask for your ack to pickup myself but I see there is no
> > strict dependency for that. Not sure if you want to take this as fix for
> > v6.1 as the thermal changes broke the existing support in SCMI hwmon
> > or do you still prefer v6.2 ?
> > 
> 
> It is a regression and should be applied to 6.1. I'll pick it up and send
> a pull request to Linus later this week.

Indeed, thanks for the confirmation.

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Regards,
Sudeep