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authorGuenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>2020-12-21 10:59:33 -0800
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hwmon: (abx500) Decomission abx500 driver
This deletes the ABx500 hwmon driver, the only supported variant being the AB8500. This driver has been replaced by generic frameworks. By inspecting the abx500 sysfs files we see that it contains things such as temp1_max, temp1_max_alarm, temp1_max_hyst, temp1_max_hyst_alarm, temp1_min, temp1_min_alarm. It becomes obvious that the abx500.c is a reimplementation of thermal zones. This is not very strange as the generic thermal zones were not invented when this driver was merged so people were rolling their own. The ab8500.c driver contains conversion tables for handling a thermistor on ADC channels AUX1 and AUX2. I managed to replace the functionality of the driver with: - Activation of the ntc_thermistor.c driver, CONFIG_SENSORS_NTC_THERMISTOR - Activation of thermal zones, CONFIG_THERMAL - In the device tree, connecting the NTC driver to the processed IIO channels from the AB8500 GPADC ADC forming two instances of NTC sensors. - Connecting the two NTC sensors to a "chassis" thermal zone in the device tree and setting that to hit the CPU frequency at 50 degrees celsius and do a critical shutdown at 70 degrees celsius, deploying a policy using the sensors. After talking to the original authors we concluded that the driver was never properly parameterized in production so what we now have in the device tree is already puts the thermistors to better use than what the hwmon driver did. The two remaining channels for two battery temperatures is already handled in the charging algorithms but can be optionally extended to thermal zones as well if we want these to trigger critical shutdown for the platform. Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201221125521.768082-1-linus.walleij@linaro.org [groeck: Removed documentation and fixed up Makefile, Kconfig] Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
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-rw-r--r--Documentation/hwmon/ab8500.rst26
-rw-r--r--Documentation/hwmon/abx500.rst32
-rw-r--r--Documentation/hwmon/index.rst2
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diff --git a/Documentation/hwmon/ab8500.rst b/Documentation/hwmon/ab8500.rst
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index 33f93a9cec04..000000000000
--- a/Documentation/hwmon/ab8500.rst
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@@ -1,26 +0,0 @@
-Kernel driver ab8500
-====================
-
-Supported chips:
-
- * ST-Ericsson AB8500
-
- Prefix: 'ab8500'
-
- Addresses scanned: -
-
- Datasheet: http://www.stericsson.com/developers/documentation.jsp
-
-Authors:
- - Martin Persson <martin.persson@stericsson.com>
- - Hongbo Zhang <hongbo.zhang@linaro.org>
-
-Description
------------
-
-See also Documentation/hwmon/abx500.rst. This is the ST-Ericsson AB8500 specific
-driver.
-
-Currently only the AB8500 internal sensor and one external sensor for battery
-temperature are monitored. Other GPADC channels can also be monitored if needed
-in future.
diff --git a/Documentation/hwmon/abx500.rst b/Documentation/hwmon/abx500.rst
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index 3d88b2ce0f00..000000000000
--- a/Documentation/hwmon/abx500.rst
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-Kernel driver abx500
-====================
-
-Supported chips:
-
- * ST-Ericsson ABx500 series
-
- Prefix: 'abx500'
-
- Addresses scanned: -
-
- Datasheet: http://www.stericsson.com/developers/documentation.jsp
-
-Authors:
- Martin Persson <martin.persson@stericsson.com>
- Hongbo Zhang <hongbo.zhang@linaro.org>
-
-Description
------------
-
-Every ST-Ericsson Ux500 SOC consists of both ABx500 and DBx500 physically,
-this is kernel hwmon driver for ABx500.
-
-There are some GPADCs inside ABx500 which are designed for connecting to
-thermal sensors, and there is also a thermal sensor inside ABx500 too, which
-raises interrupt when critical temperature reached.
-
-This abx500 is a common layer which can monitor all of the sensors, every
-specific abx500 chip has its special configurations in its own file, e.g. some
-sensors can be configured invisible if they are not available on that chip, and
-the corresponding gpadc_addr should be set to 0, thus this sensor won't be
-polled.
diff --git a/Documentation/hwmon/index.rst b/Documentation/hwmon/index.rst
index fcb870ce6286..ebe53bb771dd 100644
--- a/Documentation/hwmon/index.rst
+++ b/Documentation/hwmon/index.rst
@@ -18,10 +18,8 @@ Hardware Monitoring Kernel Drivers
.. toctree::
:maxdepth: 1
- ab8500
abituguru
abituguru3
- abx500
acpi_power_meter
ad7314
adc128d818