Re: [PATCH v1] ARM: dts: meson: drop iio-hwmon in favour of generic-adc-thermal

From: Martin Blumenstingl

Date: Tue Jan 06 2026 - 04:12:18 EST


Hi Neil,

On Sat, Nov 8, 2025 at 10:15 PM Martin Blumenstingl
<martin.blumenstingl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Commit 85b21fdec906e ("thermal/drivers/generic-adc: Register thermal
> zones as hwmon sensors") made "generic-adc-thermal" also register hwmon
> attributes. That means we now have the temperature sensor shown twice:
> - once from iio-hwmon
> - and another time from generic-adc-thermal
>
> We need the latter for SoC temperature control, so simply drop the
> former so userspace doesn't see duplicate sensors. Also
> generic-adc-thermal provides a better name to userspace
> ("soc_thermal-virtual-0") than iio_hwmon.
>
> Signed-off-by: Martin Blumenstingl <martin.blumenstingl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
gentle ping on this