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SubjectRe: PATCH v4 ASUS EC Sensors
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Hello.

On úterý 11. ledna 2022 19:03:43 CET Eugene Shalygin wrote:
> 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.

BTW, is this OK:

```
[ 11.104396] asus-ec-sensors PNP0C09:00: board has 6 EC sensors that span 7 registers
[ 11.104400] asus-ec-sensors PNP0C09:00: hwmon: 'asus-ec-sensors' is not a valid name attribute, please fix
```

?

>
> 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.

Thanks.

--
Oleksandr Natalenko (post-factum)


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