Re: [PATCH] powernv: Add OCC driver to mmap sensor area
From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <hidden>
Date: 2017-10-02 08:35:20
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From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <hidden>
Date: 2017-10-02 08:35:20
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On Mon, 2017-10-02 at 14:14 +1100, Stewart Smith wrote:
Shilpasri G Bhat [off-list ref] writes:quoted
This driver provides interface to mmap the OCC sensor area to userspace to parse and read OCC inband sensors.Why? Is this for debug? If so, the existing exports interface should be used. If there's actual sensors, we already have two ways of exposing sensors to Linux: the OPAL_SENSOR API and the IMC API. Why this method and not use the existing ones?
More than that, a sensor should be exposed to userspace via hwmon, not some random direct userspace map. Ben.