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Hi Linus,
On 11/22/18 5:49 AM, Linus Walleij wrote:
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(It's
also worth noting that HDD temperature sensors are notoriously
unreliable).
I am sorry if you think that D-Link does bad engineering, what I
am trying to achieve is upstream support for this device, without
any out-of-tree patches. The D-Link DIR-685 uses the harddisk
sensor for this, whether we like it or not.
Following the above argument (not yours, the one about accuracy),
I guess we should drop support for all CPU temperature sensors
from the Linux kernel. After all, they are known to be much more
inaccurate than a HDD temperature sensor could ever be.
Seriously, any argument about (lack of) sensor accuracy should be
silently ignored. I may be overly pessimistic nowadays, but whenever
I see such an argument, I read it as "we'll never accept your patch,
so better stop wasting your time and forget about it". I hope I am
wrong, but it seems to me that this is where things are going.
Can you possibly extract this as pure hwmon driver outside scsi control ?
I'll be happy to accept it as standalone hwmon driver.
Thanks,
Guenter
