Re: [RFC PATCH 2/2] platform: arm64: qcom-hamoa-ec: test sensor and variant handling

[Guenter Roeck]

On 9/7/26 19:18, Birk Skyum wrote:
> Thanks for checking this.
>
> The test client is bound to the I2C core's dummy driver by
> i2c_new_dummy_device(). Unregistering it unbinds that driver and releases
> the managed hwmon child before the adapter is deleted. I reran the arm64
> KUnit image on the stated 7.3-rc2 base; all seven cases completed and the
> guest rebooted normally, including cleanup after the sensor-probe test.
>
> The dummy-driver binding is also documented here:
> https://docs.kernel.org/driver-api/i2c.html#c.i2c_new_dummy_device
>
> For the hwmon placement, I kept the small read-only sensor path in the
> existing EC driver, as huawei-gaokun-ec does. Guenter and linux-hwmon are
> already copied. Would an auxiliary driver under drivers/hwmon be preferred
> here? I'm happy to split it if that is the preferred direction.


Your call, really, but it is all or nothing as mentioned
in the other patch. Platform drivers are not documented in
Documentation/hwmon/.

Guenter