Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] hwmon: add fan speed monitoring driver for Surface devices

[Ivor Wanders]

Hi Armin, thank you for your time and comments.

> You can drop those checks, the hwmon core.
> Maybe you could use a more unique name for the hwmon chip, like "surface_fan".
Sure, incorporated both suggestions.

> Please propagate the error from __ssam_fan_rpm_get().
Done. Currently that function can only return -EIO and 0, but indeed best to
propagate that in case more error codes are returned in the future.

> What exactly is the purpose of calling ssam_device_set_drvdata() here?
That line was necessary when this driver also hooked into the thermal subsystem.
Integration with the thermal subsystem was removed in downstream iterations when
I discovered we can't directly control the fan speed, see [1] for more info.
I've removed this line, as it no longer serves any purpose here.

~Ivor

[1]: https://github.com/linux-surface/kernel/pull/144#issuecomment-1853123261