Dear Jonathan, Thank you for your reply, I'll move the driver to HWMON. Additionally, for conventional ADC, Thermal sensor, and tachometer like chips, would it be more appropriate to implement them in HWMON? Best regards Ming Jonathan Cameron <jic23@xxxxxxxxxx> 於 2024年12月1日 週日 上午4:28寫道： > > On Tue, 26 Nov 2024 15:40:03 +0800 > Ming Yu <a0282524688@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > NCT7718W is an I2C based thermal sensor chip from Nuvoton. > Hi Ming Yu, > > +CC Jean and Guenter, > > Why an IIO driver rather than a HWMON one? Superficially this looks like a hwmon > chip. We do have the means to put a generic driver in IIO and bridge to hwmon, but > when a device is very much intended for monitoring of hardware temperatures etc > the IIO driver rarely has any purpose and a simpler hwmon only solution makes sense. > > For temperature sensors IIO normally makes sense if: > 1) They are part of a series of devices some of which have more functionality than temp > 2) Fast devices where hwmon sysfs interfaces become a bottleneck - note you have to have > a usecase for reading them fast, not simply a device that is capable of it. > 3) 'Unusual' temperature sensors such as infrared thermometers or very high precision > thermocouple interfaces. > > Any of those apply here? > > Note that hwmon has better threshold and critical temperature handling than we can do > in IIO and it seems your part has those as well. > > Thanks, > > Jonathan > > > > > > Ming Yu (2): > > dt-bindings: iio: temperature: Add support for NCT7718W > > iio: temperature: Add Nuvoton NCT7718W support > > > > .../iio/temperature/nuvoton,nct7718.yaml | 44 ++ > > MAINTAINERS | 7 + > > drivers/iio/temperature/Kconfig | 10 + > > drivers/iio/temperature/Makefile | 1 + > > drivers/iio/temperature/nct7718.c | 505 ++++++++++++++++++ > > 5 files changed, 567 insertions(+) > > create mode 100644 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/iio/temperature/nuvoton,nct7718.yaml > > create mode 100644 drivers/iio/temperature/nct7718.c > > >
