Re: [PATCH v2] hwmon: (lm90) Add support for G781

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On Mon, 2012-01-23 at 12:08 -0500, Jean Delvare wrote:
> Hi Guenter,
> 
> On Mon, 23 Jan 2012 08:26:29 -0800, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> > GMT G781 is a ADM1032-compatible temperature sensor chip.
> > Add support to the LM90 driver.
> > 
> > Cc: Mike Gorchak <lestat@xxxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > v2:
> > - Drop device ID 0x03, since its existence is not confirmed.
> >   Instead, accept device ID 0x01 on both 0x4c and 0x4d.
> > - Drop referring to G781-1; we don't do that for other chips either,
> >   and it is not clear if it is even possible to distinguish G781 from G781-1.
> > - Add G781 information to Kconfig, lm90 documentation
> > - Mention G781 support in lm90.c file comments
> > - Modify formatting to better match file formatting
> > 
> >  Documentation/hwmon/lm90 |    5 +++++
> >  drivers/hwmon/Kconfig    |    3 ++-
> >  drivers/hwmon/lm90.c     |   19 ++++++++++++++++++-
> >  3 files changed, 25 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/Documentation/hwmon/lm90 b/Documentation/hwmon/lm90
> > index 9cd14cfe..d8f1e66 100644
> > --- a/Documentation/hwmon/lm90
> > +++ b/Documentation/hwmon/lm90
> > @@ -118,6 +118,11 @@ Supported chips:
> >      Addresses scanned: I2C 0x48 through 0x4F
> >      Datasheet: Publicly available at NXP website
> >                 http://ics.nxp.com/products/interface/datasheet/sa56004x.pdf
> > +  * GMT G781
> > +    Prefix: 'g781'
> > +    Addresses scanned: I2C 0x4c, 0x4d
> > +    Datasheet: Publicly available, for example from
> > +    		http://www.datasheetarchive.com/G781-datasheet.html
> 
> Not sure if we really want to document the availability from a 3rd
> party site. There may be legal concerns. If the datasheet isn't
> publicly available for download from the vendor, it might have been
> obtained under NDA in the first place.
> 
> It probably doesn't add much value anyway... I guess it was found by
> googling, the reader can do the same.
> 
I agree; lets drop it. Wasn't sure about that myself. Want me to
resubmit ?

> All the rest looks good, so:
> 
> Acked-by: Jean Delvare <khali@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Let me know if you want me to pick this in my tree as the maintainer of
> the lm90 driver.
> 
Your call; I also have the multi-line comment patch pending for it. I
would suggest either you take both patches, or I do. I am fine either
way.

Thanks,
Guenter



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