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From:   Eugene Shalygin <eugene.shalygin@gmail.com>
Date:   Thu, 25 Nov 2021 21:05:12 +0100
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] hwmon: (nct6775) Implement custom lock by ACPI mutex.
To:     Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Cc:     Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@gmail.com>,
        Denis Pauk <pauk.denis@gmail.com>,
        Platform Driver <platform-driver-x86@vger.kernel.org>,
        thomas@weissschuh.net, Jean Delvare <jdelvare@suse.com>,
        linux-hwmon@vger.kernel.org,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
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On Thu, 25 Nov 2021 at 20:54, Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net> wrote:
> We won't be heving two drivers with the same functionality. Give me one
> reason why I should not drop the wmi driver (or both of them; I am not
> sure which one we are talking about here).
>
> On top of all that, this submission isn't about any of the wmi drivers,
> but for the nct6775 driver, which just adds to the confusion.

Let me try to explain once again, please. I began to dig into the ASUS
sensors and how to read their values and at first found the WMI
function to do that, wrote a driver and Denis submitted it as
asus_wmi_ec_sensors. Now, I know a better and simpler way to read
those sensors, which uses ACPI mutex directly. I suggested Denis to
use the mutex way for the nct6775 driver for motherboards without WMI
functions to read from the nct chip. With that change entering the nct
driver, I want to submit my updated driver for EC sensors, replacing
the asus_wmi_ec_sensors code (which is essentially my old driver).

So, now I ask to rename asus_wmi_sensors to asus_ec_sensors (source
file and KBuild options) already before 5.16 is released, because the
updated code, which I will submit later, and which will replace that
in asus_wmi_ec_sensors.c, does not use WMI.

Hope this clarifies my request and intention.

Best regards,
Eugene