[PATCH 2/3] hwmon: Driver for OMAP3 temperature sensor

Guenter Roeck linux at roeck-us.net
Mon Dec 29 11:04:48 PST 2014


On Mon, Dec 29, 2014 at 07:15:56PM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote:
> On Mon 2014-12-29 12:01:03, Nishanth Menon wrote:
> > On Mon, Dec 29, 2014 at 11:52 AM, Grazvydas Ignotas <notasas at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > On Fri, Dec 26, 2014 at 2:34 PM, Sebastian Reichel <sre at kernel.org> wrote:
> > >> OMAP34xx and OMAP36xx processors contain a register in the syscon area,
> > >> which can be used to determine the SoCs temperature. This patch provides
> > >> a DT based driver for the temperature sensor based on an older driver
> > >> written by Peter De Schrijver for the Nokia N900 and N9.
> > >
> > > The sensor looks like an earlier iteration of sensors used in newer
> > > OMAPs, which are already supported by maybe
> > > drivers/thermal/ti-soc-thermal/ , maybe it would make sense to update
> > > that driver instead?
> > 
> > Just to be clear - OMAP4 is the first time that the sensors were
> > reliable enough to be used.
> 
> When testing initial version of the patch, they seem to work very well
> in the omap3 case.
> 
Pavel,

can you look into the omap4 thermal driver to see if it can be used ?

Thanks,
Guenter



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