Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 18 Jan 2015 14:18:24 -0800 | From | Guenter Roeck <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 2/3] hwmon: Driver for OMAP3 temperature sensor |
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On 01/18/2015 12:33 PM, Pavel Machek wrote:
>>>> Pavel, >>>> >>>> can you look into the omap4 thermal driver to see if it can be used ? >>> >>> After some fixes... yes, it seems to be same hardware. >>> >> So this should be the way to go, but then we have others claim that >> it should not be done because the OMAP3 sensors are too unreliable >> to use for thermal decisions. Not really sure where that leaves us. >> I am kind of opposed to have similar drivers for similar chips >> in two different subsystems. >> >> Is it possible to add the patch below to the omap thermal driver >> and not use it for thermal decisions ? > > Well... noone forces you to enable the driver, and I don't think it > will do any thermal decisions on N900 as it is ... so we should be ok. > > Plus, it seems to work reasonably well (say +- 5 C), so situation does > not seem to be as bad as TI claims. > > Nokia was actually using it in production. > Ok, I'll assume that omap3 support will be added to the omap thermal driver.
Thanks, Guenter
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