On Sat, May 10, 2014 at 05:32:13AM -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote: > On 05/10/2014 06:22 AM, Andreas Werner wrote: > >Hi, > >i am currently working on an implemenation of my Board Management Controller > >(BMC). > > > >This Controller is a MCR assembled on almost all of our Compact PCI or > >Compact PCI Serial > >Cards as well as on some other CPU Boards. > > > >The BMC includes LED´s, Watchdog, Voltage Monitoring and some other features. > >I have already implemented an MFD driver, LED and Watchdog driver. > > > >Currently i am working on the hwmon implemenation. This includes for the > >first step the > >voltage monitoring. > > > >The BMC has some other feature which are not supported by any of the > >subsystem. > > - Errorcounter (Board status) > > - Power Failure status > > - Operating ours > > Guess you mean hours here.
Yes sorry my mistake. > > > - Do software reset, do cold reset > > - Set power modes > > - Backplate Geographical Address > > > >These are all informations related to the Board where the BMC is assembled > >to. > >I think all those features could be part of the hwmon implementation. > > > Why ? As all of the settings are CPU board related i thought it will be an good idea to put as much settings as possible to a group to one subsystem. This would be easier for the User Application. > > >Is it possible to add "custom" sysfs entries in my hwmon driver to support > >all these features? > >Does lm-sensor ingore those custom features or is it a problem for > >lm-sensors? > > > >What is the normal way to add those features? > > > > The hwmon subsystem isn't really the correct location for this functionality. > Power management should be done with a regulator driver (possibly power). > The other attributes and functionality would better fit into the mfd core > driver. > MFD Core sounds good. That is also perfect for the User App. > You might want to tie the reset functions into the system reset functionality. I do not understand this. Is there another subsystem or something like that were I can put the Reset stuff to? > > Guenter > I guess the hwmon subsys is the right place for the voltage monitoring (3,3V, 5V etc) isn´t it? Regards Andy -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
