Re: [PATCH 2/3] hwmon: (nct6775) Implement custom lock by ACPI mutex.

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On Thu, Nov 25, 2021 at 3:15 PM Eugene Shalygin
<eugene.shalygin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Dear Andy, Denis, and Günter,

Please, do not top post in the mailing lists!

> Denis worked on my code with the first attempt to read EC sensors from
> ASUS motherboards and submitted it as a driver named
> "asus_wmi_ec_sensors", which is not in hwmon-next. Now he adds the
> ACPI lock feature to support other motherboards, and I have another
> iteration of the EC sensor driver under development (needs some
> polishment) that utilizes the same concept (ACPI lock instead of WMI
> methods), which is smaller, cleaner and faster than the WMI-based one.
> I'm going to submit it to the mainline too. I think it should replace
> the WMI one. In anticipation of that, can we change the name of the
> accepted driver (asus_wmi_ec_sensors -> asus_ec_sensors) now, in order
> to not confuse users in the next version and to remove implementation
> detail from the module name? The drivers provide indistinguishable
> data to HWMON.

I'm not sure I have got the above correctly, do you mean that the just
submitted asus_wmi_sensors HWMON driver will be replaced by your
changes? If so, you guys, need a lot to improve communication between
each other before submitting anything upstream.

-- 
With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko




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