[PATCH 05/10] hwmon: generic-pwm-tachometer: Add generic PWM based tachometer

Laxman Dewangan ldewangan at nvidia.com
Thu Mar 8 07:21:07 PST 2018



On Thursday 08 March 2018 08:01 PM, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> On 03/07/2018 10:06 PM, Laxman Dewangan wrote:
>>
>>
>> The RPM is measured speed via PWM signal capture  which is output 
>> from fan.
>> So should we have the fan[1..n]_output_rpm?
>>
>
> No. I hear you clearly that you for some reason dislike fan[1..n]_input.
> While ABIs are not always to our liking, that doesn't mean that we get
> to change them at our whim. If that is not acceptable for you, I can't
> help you. And you can't change inX_input to inX_voltage either, sorry.

My opinion is only to not use "input" as this is not really the input to 
fan.



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