Re: [PATCH 2/3] hwmon: Driver for OMAP3 temperature sensor

From: Nishanth Menon
Date: Mon Dec 29 2014 - 13:01:11 EST


On Mon, Dec 29, 2014 at 11:52 AM, Grazvydas Ignotas <notasas@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 26, 2014 at 2:34 PM, Sebastian Reichel <sre@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> OMAP34xx and OMAP36xx processors contain a register in the syscon area,
>> which can be used to determine the SoCs temperature. This patch provides
>> a DT based driver for the temperature sensor based on an older driver
>> written by Peter De Schrijver for the Nokia N900 and N9.
>
> The sensor looks like an earlier iteration of sensors used in newer
> OMAPs, which are already supported by maybe
> drivers/thermal/ti-soc-thermal/ , maybe it would make sense to update
> that driver instead?

Just to be clear - OMAP4 is the first time that the sensors were
reliable enough to be used.

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Regards,
Nishanth Menon
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