Re: [PATCH v2 16/16] hwmon: (mr75203) add debugfs to read and write temperature coefficients

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On Mon, Aug 22, 2022 at 04:59:43PM +0300, Farber, Eliav wrote:
> On 8/19/2022 2:11 AM, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> > On Wed, Aug 17, 2022 at 05:43:21AM +0000, Eliav Farber wrote:
> > > This change adds debugfs to read and write TS coefficients - g, h, j and
> > > cal5.
> > > 
> > > The coefficients can vary between product and product, so to calibrate
> > > them it can be very useful to to be able to modify them on the fly.
> > > 
> > > e.g.
> > > 
> > > cat /sys/kernel/debug/940f23d0000.pvt/ts_coeff_cal5
> > > 4096
> > > 
> > > echo 83000 > sys/kernel/debug/940f23d0000.pvt/ts_coeff_g
> > > 
> > 
> > What happens if you write 0 into all those attributes, or 0xffffffff ?
> The driver equation is:
> T = G + H * (n / cal5 - 0.5) + J * F
> So I added protection for cal5 not being 0.
> Besides that there is no limitation on what these values can be.
> I can't really think of any other logical limitation I can apply.
> 
There needs to be an overflow protection. I am quite sure that 0xffffffff
would result in overflows and thus in quite random reported values.

Thanks,
Guenter

> --
> Regards, Eliav



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