Re: [PATCH 0/2] iio: temperature: add mcp98xx driver support

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On 19/07/15 16:24, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 19, 2015 at 10:24:53AM +0100, Jonathan Cameron wrote:
>> On 19/07/15 04:04, Matt Ranostay wrote:
>>> This changeset adds driver support for the Microchip mcp98xx series of
>>> temperature sensors.
>>>
> 
> MCP98xx is pretty a pretty far reaching claim. This could also be MCP9804
> or MCP9843, which are JC42 compatible sensor chips and supported by the jc42
> driver. Does the new driver claim to support those as well ?
Indeed.  Generic driver names are almost always a bad idea!
> 
> Guenter
> 
>>> This includes temperature reading, and rising/falling threshold events.
>> Why an IIO driver?  These parts already look to be supported in hwmon by
>> the lm75 driver.  We need a pretty strong reason to contemplate having
>> support in both subsystems...
>>>
>>> Matt Ranostay (2):
>>>   iio: temperature: DT binding doc for mcp98xx
>>>   iio: temperature: add support for mcp98xx sensors
>>>
>>>  .../bindings/iio/temperature/mcp98xx.txt           |  22 +
>>>  drivers/iio/temperature/Kconfig                    |  10 +
>>>  drivers/iio/temperature/Makefile                   |   1 +
>>>  drivers/iio/temperature/mcp98xx.c                  | 588 +++++++++++++++++++++
>>>  4 files changed, 621 insertions(+)
>>>  create mode 100644 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/iio/temperature/mcp98xx.txt
>>>  create mode 100644 drivers/iio/temperature/mcp98xx.c
>>>
>>
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