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SubjectRe: [PATCH RESEND v3 0/3] Add support for ESM
On 4/25/23 01:49, Neha Malcom Francis wrote:
> Hi Guenter
>
> On 24/04/23 20:27, Guenter Roeck wrote:
>> On 4/24/23 03:50, Neha Malcom Francis wrote:
>>> Resending as no major changes, commit subject change only.
>>>
>>
>> Maybe you consider changing the subject of the bindings from "misc"
>> to "hwmon" as not being a major change, but it made me aware that you
>> are trying to sneak bindings which in my opinion don't belong there
>> into the hwmon bindings directory. This is not a hardware monitoring
>> device, it doesn't have anything to do with hardware monitoring, and the
>> bindings do not belong into bindings/hwmon/.
>>
>
> I understand, it's a thin line across which I pushed ESM into hwmon; my reasoning was ESM also actively looks for signals that it aggregates, and is overall monitoring the device health. But if there was an option, in order of fitting: fault/ > misc/ > hwmon/
>

That is really a stretch. It doesn't monitor anything. It is a signal
routing mechanism.

With that logic every transistor would be a hardware monitoring device.

Guenter

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