Re: [PATCH 0/7] drivers/hwmon: Add On-Chip Controller (OCC) hwmon driver

From: Guenter Roeck
Date: Fri Jun 23 2017 - 00:52:23 EST


On 06/22/2017 03:48 PM, Eddie James wrote:
From: "Edward A. James" <eajames@xxxxxxxxxx>

This series adds a hwmon driver to support the OCC on POWER8 and POWER9
processors. The OCC is an embedded processor that provides realtime power and
thermal monitoring and management.

This driver has two different platform drivers as a "base" for the
hwmon stuff, as the means of communicating with the OCC on P8 and P9 is
completely different. For P8, the driver is an I2C client driver. For P9 the
driver is an FSI-based OCC client driver, and uses the OCC driver in-kernel
API.

There was a previous version of this driver that wasn't written with the
differences in communication methods between the two versions in mind. This
driver has been considerably simplified.


I thought I did see this before.

It is customary to use "v2" in such situations, and add a change log.
You expect me to go into the two versions and compare them to figure
out what changed to evaluate if it makes sense. Do you really believe that
I have enough time to do that, and that I would be willing to spend that
time in the first place ?

Presumably you know what changed. Why not just tell me ?

Guenter

Edward A. James (7):
drivers/hwmon: Add On-Chip Controller (OCC) hwmon driver
drivers/hwmon/occ: Add command transport method for P8 and P9
drivers/hwmon/occ: Parse OCC poll response
drivers/hwmon/occ: Add sensor types and versions
drivers/hwmon/occ: Add sensor attributes and register hwmon device
drivers/hwmon/occ: Add non-hwmon attributes
drivers/hwmon/occ: Add error handling

Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-driver-occ-hwmon | 77 ++
.../devicetree/bindings/fsi/ibm,p9-occ-hwmon.txt | 18 +
.../devicetree/bindings/i2c/ibm,p8-occ-hwmon.txt | 25 +
Documentation/hwmon/occ | 84 ++
drivers/hwmon/Kconfig | 2 +
drivers/hwmon/Makefile | 1 +
drivers/hwmon/occ/Kconfig | 28 +
drivers/hwmon/occ/Makefile | 11 +
drivers/hwmon/occ/common.c | 1242 ++++++++++++++++++++
drivers/hwmon/occ/common.h | 151 +++
drivers/hwmon/occ/p8_i2c.c | 250 ++++
drivers/hwmon/occ/p9_sbe.c | 144 +++
12 files changed, 2033 insertions(+)
create mode 100644 Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-driver-occ-hwmon
create mode 100644 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/fsi/ibm,p9-occ-hwmon.txt
create mode 100644 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/i2c/ibm,p8-occ-hwmon.txt
create mode 100644 Documentation/hwmon/occ
create mode 100644 drivers/hwmon/occ/Kconfig
create mode 100644 drivers/hwmon/occ/Makefile
create mode 100644 drivers/hwmon/occ/common.c
create mode 100644 drivers/hwmon/occ/common.h
create mode 100644 drivers/hwmon/occ/p8_i2c.c
create mode 100644 drivers/hwmon/occ/p9_sbe.c