[PATCH v4 3/3] hwmon: Driver for Nuvoton NCT7363Y

[Paul Menzel]

Dear Guenter,


Am 28.02.24 um 10:03 schrieb Guenter Roeck:
> On 2/27/24 23:57, Paul Menzel wrote:

>> Am 27.02.24 um 01:56 schrieb baneric926 at gmail.com:
>>> From: Ban Feng <kcfeng0 at nuvoton.com>
>>>
>>> NCT7363Y is an I2C based hardware monitoring chip from Nuvoton.
>>
>> Please reference the datasheet.
> 
> Note that something like
> 
> Datasheet: Available from Nuvoton upon request
> 
> is quite common for hardware monitoring chips and acceptable.

Yes, it would be nice to document it though. (And finally for vendors to 
just make them available for download.)

>> Could you please give a high level description of the driver design?
> 
> Can you be more specific ? I didn't have time yet to look into details,
> but at first glance this looks like a standard hardware monitoring driver.
> One could argue that the high level design of such drivers is described
> in Documentation/hwmon/hwmon-kernel-api.rst.
> 
> I don't usually ask for a additional design information for hwmon drivers
> unless some chip interaction is unusual and needs to be explained,
> and then I prefer to have it explained in the code. Given that, I am
> quite curious and would like to understand what you are looking for.
For a 10+ lines commit, in my opinion the commit message should say 
something about the implementation. Even it is just, as you wrote, a 
note, that it follows the standard design.


Kind regards,

Paul