On 08/07/2017 08:25 PM, Eddie James wrote:
From: "Edward A. James" <eaja...@us.ibm.com>
Hi Guenter,
I'm looking for some feedback for some extensions to the pmbus core. We're
looking for some additional functionality, particularly with STATUS_WORD and
obtaining raw status data.
The first two patches enable the use of the STATUS_WORD register in the pmbus
core. This allows the use of more default alarm/fault attributes for default
pmbus sensors by allowing the use of the higher byte status bits.
The third patch adds "status" attributes to each class of hwmon sensor created
by pmbus. For example, in1_status and temp1_status. These will display the
associated raw status register (e.g. STATUS_INPUT and STATUS_TEMPERATURE). I
realize this is not really "normal" for hwmon or pmbus. These are potentially
very useful in hardware diagnostic situations where it might be impossible
to tell the origin of a failure from a simple alarm or fault bit set. We really
want to access the status registers, and for a multi-page pmbus device, this is
pretty tricky from userspace.
Please let me know your thoughts,
Thanks,
I don't mind providing such data with debugfs, for example, but I don't see
the point in providing it as part of the ABI. Which, in part, since it requires
a lot of thought on my side, is part of the reason why I didn't provide
feedback to your earlier patches yet. Sorry, I've been exceptionally busy
lately, and non-standard requests tend to end up at the end of the queue :-(.
Any reason why debugfs is not sufficient and/or acceptable for your use case ?
You _are_ talking about diagnostic situations, which seems to be an exact fit
for debugfs.
Guenter
Edward A. James (3):
drivers/hwmon/pmbus: Access word data for STATUS_WORD and use it by
default
drivers/hmwon/pmbus: store STATUS_WORD in status registers
drivers/hwmon/pmbus: Add sensor status to pmbus attributes
drivers/hwmon/pmbus/pmbus_core.c | 153 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------
1 file changed, 130 insertions(+), 23 deletions(-)
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