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SubjectRe: PATCH v4 ASUS EC Sensors
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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