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Re: [PATCH] powernv: Add OCC driver to mmap sensor area

From Stewart Smith <stewart@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH] powernv: Add OCC driver to mmap sensor area
Date 2017-10-02 05:20 +0200
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Shilpasri G Bhat <shilpa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com> writes:
> 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?

-- 
Stewart Smith
OPAL Architect, IBM.

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[PATCH] powernv: Add OCC driver to mmap sensor area Shilpasri G Bhat <shilpa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2017-09-29 09:00 +0200
  Re: [PATCH] powernv: Add OCC driver to mmap sensor area Oliver <oohall@gmail.com> - 2017-09-29 09:50 +0200
  Re: [PATCH] powernv: Add OCC driver to mmap sensor area Stewart Smith <stewart@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2017-10-02 05:20 +0200
    Re: [PATCH] powernv: Add OCC driver to mmap sensor area Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@au1.ibm.com> - 2017-10-02 10:40 +0200

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