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From:   Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 7/8] hwmon: (scmi) Register explicitly with Thermal
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On 10/28/22 08:35, Cristian Marussi wrote:
[ ... ]
>>> +	/*
>>> +	 * Try to register a temperature sensor with the Thermal Framework:
>>> +	 * skip sensors not defined as part of any thermal zone (-ENODEV) but
>>> +	 * report any other errors related to misconfigured zones/sensors.
>>> +	 */
>>> +	tzd = devm_thermal_of_zone_register(dev, th_sensor->info->id, th_sensor,
>>> +					    &scmi_hwmon_thermal_ops);
>>> +	if (IS_ERR(tzd)) {
>>> +		devm_kfree(dev, th_sensor);
>>> +
>>> +		if (PTR_ERR(tzd) != -ENODEV)
>>> +			return PTR_ERR(tzd);
>>> +
>>> +		dev_info(dev, "Sensor '%s' not attached to any thermal zone.\n",
>>> +			 sensor->name);
>>
>> There were complaints about this message as it is noisy. If you send
>> another version, please drop it unless attaching each sensor to a thermal
>> zone is strongly expected. If you don't send another version, I'll drop it
>> while applying.
>>
> 
> Ok fine for me. I am waiting to have some feedback from Sudeep too, but
> I do not have plan for another version as of now.
> 
> As a side note, though, I understand the 'noisiness' argument, but,
> sincerely this same message in the original HWMON code was the only
> reason why I spotted that something was wrong with the SCMI/HWMON
> interactions and discovered the indexes/ids mismatch...if not for
> that it would have gone un-noticed that a perfectly configured
> ThermalZone/Sensor was not working properly...
> (un-noticed at least until something would have been burnt to fire
>   in my house .. joking :P)
> 

Good point.

Did you ever check the returned error code ? Maybe we could use it to
distinguish "it is not attached to a thermal zone because it is not
associated with one" from "attaching to a thermal zone failed because
its configuration is bad/incomplete".

Thanks,
Guenter