Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] dt-bindings: hwmon: pwm-fan: add retain-state-shutdown property

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2024年10月31日(木) 0:18 Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk@xxxxxxxxxx>:
>
> On 28/10/2024 15:57, Akinobu Mita wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> You described the desired Linux feature or behavior, not the actual
> >>>> hardware. The bindings are about the latter, so instead you need to
> >>>> rephrase the property and its description to match actual hardware
> >>>> capabilities/features/configuration etc.
> >>>
> >>> Is this description okay?
> >>> (Reused the description of retain-state-shutdown in leds-gpio.yaml)
> >>>
> >>> description:
> >>>   Retain the state of the PWM on shutdown. Useful in BMC systems, for
> >>>   example, when the BMC is rebooted while the host remains up, the fan
> >>>   will not stop.
> >>
> >> Nothing improved in the property. You still say what the system should
> >> do. This is user-space choice, not DT.
> >
> > It seems better to implement it as a device attribute.
>
> I don't know about that. To repeat: if you say what system is supposed
> to be doing, it is a policy. Describe the hardware and its configuration
> and maybe this would be suitable for DT.

Billy, could you please write a proper description for this property?
I'm not the right person for this.





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