Hello, Fabien. Is $SUBJ right? CPU temperature? On Wed, Aug 03, 2016 at 09:35:56AM +0200, Fabien Lahoudere wrote: > From: Csaba Kertesz <csaba.kertesz@xxxxxxxxx> > > The original patch was made by Richard Zhu for kernel 2.6.x: > > ENGR00134041-MX53-Add-the-SATA-AHCI-temperature-monitor.patch > > The old source code was migrated to the new kernel 3.x. The concept of > value reading was changed a bit: > > 1. The new 3.x kernel functions (imx_phy_reg_read, imx_phy_reg_write) use > 16 bit registers while the original implementation used 32 bit integers > for this purpose. The description seems pretty dated. > 2. The communication is guarded against infinite loop to give up a certain > register reading after 100000 attempts. This number comes from the > original implementation. A new variable (read_attempt) is introduced to > count the trials. That's a very high number for a retry counter. > +/* SATA AHCI temperature monitor */ > +static ssize_t sata_ahci_current_tmp(struct device *dev, struct device_attribute Abbreviating temperature to tmp probably isn't the best idea. Patch looks good to me except for the above nits; however, I wonder whether it being a one-off sysfs attribute is the right approach. Don't we have subsystems and interfaces for things like temperature readings? Thanks. -- tejun -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
