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SubjectRe: [PATCH 1/2] platform/x86: dell-ddv: Add hwmon support
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On 2/6/23 13:19, Armin Wolf wrote:
> Am 06.02.23 um 17:23 schrieb Guenter Roeck:
>
>> On Mon, Feb 06, 2023 at 03:13:25PM +0100, Hans de Goede wrote:
>>> Hi Armin,
>>>
>>> On 2/5/23 21:54, Armin Wolf wrote:
>>>> Thanks to bugreport 216655 on bugzilla triggered by the
>>>> dell-smm-hwmon driver, the contents of the sensor buffers
>>>> could be almost completely decoded.
>>>> Add an hwmon interface for exposing the fan and thermal
>>>> sensor values. Since the WMI interface can be quite slow
>>>> on some machines, the sensor buffers are cached for 1 second
>>>> to lessen the performance impact.
>>>> The debugfs interface remains in place to aid in reverse-engineering
>>>> of unknown sensor types and the thermal buffer.
>>>>
>>>> Tested-by: Antonín Skala <skala.antonin@gmail.com>
>>>> Tested-by: Gustavo Walbon <gustavowalbon@gmail.com>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Armin Wolf <W_Armin@gmx.de>
>>> This looks nice and clean to me, thank you:
>>>
>>> Reviewed-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
>>>
>>> I'm going to wait a bit with merging this to see if Guenter
>>> has any remarks. If there are no remarks by next Monday then
>>> I'll merge this for the 6.3 merge window.
>>>
>> I don't have any further remarks. I won't send an Ack, though.
>> I noticed that the empty lines before return statements distract
>> me sufficiently enough that I am not sure about the actual code.
>>
>> Guenter
>
> I will send a 3rd revision of the patch series to remove those empty lines then.
> Speaking of a 3rd revision, i noticed that jiffies are not updated during suspend,
> so the sensor values might be wrong for a short time when resuming after a long time.
>
> This can be solved by either usingktime_get_boottime_ns(), which does not stop during suspend, or by
> invalidating the sensor cache upon resume. Which method should be used
> in this case? Armin Wolf
>

I would suggest to invalidate the sensor cache; that seems less complex.

Guenter

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