Re: PATCH v4 ASUS EC Sensors

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2022. január 11., kedd 19:03 keltezéssel, Eugene Shalygin írta:

> This patchset replaces the HWMON asus_wmi_ec_sensors driver with
> an implementation that does not use WMI but queries the embedded
> controller directly.
>
> That provides two enhancements: sensor reading became quicker (on some
> systems or kernel configuration it took almost a full second to read
> all the sensors, that transfers less than 15 bytes of data), the driver
> became more fexible. The driver now relies on ACPI mutex to lock access
> to the EC, in the same way as the WMI DSDT code does.
>
> Chenges in v5:
>  - Place the sensors bitset directly into the driver_data field of the
> 	 dmi_system_id struct.
>  - Replace doc comments with regular ones.
>
> Changes in v4:
>  - Deprecate the wmi driver rather than removing it.
>
> Changes in v3:
>  - Remove BIOS version checks and BIOS version dependent mutex path.
>
> Changes in v2:
>  - Replace sensor flags enum with bitset
>  - Replace module init/probe functions with module_platform_driver_probe
>    and ask the platform drivers framework to load the driver when ACPI
>    EC is found (ACPI ID "PNP0C09").
>  - Extend board data with BIOS version attribute for the mutex path to be
>    BIOS version dependent.
>  - Add module parameter to override the mutex path.
>

Hi


I believe the subject should say "v5" and not "v4". In any case, FYI, `git format-patch`
has the `--cover-letter` option, which will generate a cover letter template
with the right patch version, etc.


Regards,
Barnabás Pőcze




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