Re: [PATCH v2 13/16] hwmon: (mr75203) add thermal coefficient properties for Moortec PVT controller

From: Guenter Roeck
Date: Mon Aug 22 2022 - 12:25:44 EST


On Mon, Aug 22, 2022 at 04:24:20PM +0300, Farber, Eliav wrote:
> On 8/18/2022 11:25 PM, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> > On Wed, Aug 17, 2022 at 05:43:18AM +0000, Eliav Farber wrote:
> > > Add optional "ts-coeff-g", "ts-coeff-h", "ts-coeff-cal5" and
> > > "ts-coeff-j" properties to be used instead of defaults for the
> > > thermal equasion.
> > >
> > Vendor prefix again, and shouldn;t there be some note about the
> > to-be-used defaults ?
> Can you please explain why to add a vendor prefix to these properties
> (and also to all other properties I added in this series)?
> All the properties I added are not specific to our SOC, and any other
> vendor using the same mr75203 ip block in their SOC, can also use the new
> properties.

To me it seems that the properties are very mr75203 and thus vendor
specific.

However, I am not a DT maintainer. Stepping back to let DT maintainers
respond and state their preferences.

>
> Regarding defaults, these properties are optional, so if they are absent
> in device tree, the current defaults in code are used.
>
Same as before. Question was if DT should say what the defaults are.
I'll leave it up to DT maintainers.

Thanks,
Guenter