On Wed, 26 Nov 2014 11:04:35 -0800, Guenter Roeck wrote: > On 11/26/2014 01:38 AM, Benoit Cousson wrote: > > Unfortunately, that's not dynamic enough for all the use cases we need to > > support with the probes. > > In fact, most customers will rather put the shunts on their board and thus > > use a shunt-less version of the probe to do the measurement. In that case, > > there is no way we can hard code, even in a DTS, the shunt value. > > > > That's for that kind of usage that we do need to be able to set the shunt > > value at runtime. The probe in that case can be pluged dynamically on > > different board jumpers to do the measurement. > > > > Later, thanks to the web UI, the user will be able to configure the shunt > > value based on the way they were plugged to its boards. > > > > sysfs seems to be the easiest way to do that. I don't think DT overlay can > > handle that, since it is depend of the targeted system and not on the > > measurement system. > > > > I just noticed that you did not copy the lm-sensors mailing list. > > I am not really happy with this, and want to get some more feedback > from the list before I accept more or less arbitrary attributes. > Jean, any comments ?
No opinion on the matter, sorry. -- Jean Delvare SUSE L3 Support -- 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/
