Re: [PATCH 2/3] thermal: add support for the thermal sensor on Allwinner new SoCs

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On Tue, Feb 28, 2017 at 03:18:13PM +0800, Icenowy Zheng wrote:
> 
> 2017年2月28日 14:44于 Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>写道:
> >
> > On Tue, Feb 28, 2017 at 03:40:53AM +0800, Icenowy Zheng wrote: 
> > > From: Ondrej Jirman <megous@xxxxxxxxxx> 
> > > 
> > > Allwinner SoCs from H3 (including H5, A64, etc) have a new version of 
> > > thermal sensor, and needs a new driver for it. 
> > > 
> > > Add such a driver. 
> > > 
> > > Currently only H3 is supported, but other SoCs are easily to be 
> > > supported by adding new formula and set the sensor number. 
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Ondřej Jirman <megous@xxxxxxxxxx> 
> > > [Icenowy: extend to support further multiple-sensor SoCs, change commit 
> > >  message] 
> > > Signed-off-by: Icenowy Zheng <icenowy@xxxxxxxx> 
> >
> > There's no need to create a new driver for that. This can be handled 
> > by the GPADC driver we already have. 
> 
> sun8i-ths is not GPADC at all.
> 
> The latest SoC I know that use GPADC as thermal sensor is A33.

It's not called the same way, but it definitely is an evolution of the
same controller. There's no need for a new driver, only reworking what
is already there.

Maxime

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