Re: [PATCH v2 2/4] dt-bindings: hwmon/pmbus: Add mps,mpq7932 power-management IC
From: Krzysztof Kozlowski
Date: Thu Dec 01 2022 - 11:43:39 EST
On 01/12/2022 17:38, Saravanan Sekar wrote:
>>>> Plus additional comment for the driver (and related to bindings) was
>>>> that this is not hwmon but a regulator driver. Why putting regulator
>>>> driver in hwmon?
>>>>
>>>
>>> Turns out this is primarily a hardware monitoring driver, like the drivers
>>> for all other PMBus chips. Regulator support is actually optional; the driver
>>> works perfectly well with CONFIG_REGULATOR=n (except that it needs some
>>> #ifdefs to address that situation).
>>
>> OK, this would explain location of the driver. However the bindings are
>> saying:
>> "Monolithic Power System MPQ7932 PMIC"
>> and PMIC is not mainly a hwmon device, even if it has such capabilities.
>> It might be missing description and proper title... or might be misplaced.
>>
>
> Indeed it is PMIC chip. I think this is not the first and not sure title
> has to be changed for hwmon subsystem.
>
> bindings/hwmon/pmbus/ti,lm25066.yaml
> title: National Semiconductor/Texas Instruments LM250x6/LM506x
> power-management ICs
Then I propose to put it in regulator directory.
Best regards,
Krzysztof