[PATCH linux dev-4.13 1/2] hwmon (occ): Remove temperature fault attribute and VRM temp alarm

[Joel Stanley]

On Fri, Mar 9, 2018 at 5:45 AM, Matt Spinler
<mspinler at linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
>
>
> On 3/1/2018 6:39 PM, Joel Stanley wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, Mar 2, 2018 at 9:14 AM, Eddie James <eajames at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> From: "Edward A. James" <eajames at us.ibm.com>
>>>
>>> This removes the EAGAIN return for "sensor not ready" and the temperature
>>> fault and vrm temp alarms attributes.
>>>
>>> Apologies for pushing this up so early... Userspace applications aren't
>>> ready for this change. The hwmon polling application cannot accept EGAIN
>>> yet, and we can't be returning apparent errors if the sensor is
>>> temporarily unavailable.
>>
>>
>> Okay. Brad's email is from October 5th, 2017. That's 148 days ago.
>>
>> Any ETA on when the userspace plans to get some love?
>>
>
> We have 4 issues in the backlog to address the OCC GPU sensors returning
> either a 0 or 0xFF:
> https://github.com/openbmc/openbmc/issues/2327
> https://github.com/openbmc/openbmc/issues/2329
> https://github.com/openbmc/openbmc/issues/2222
> https://github.com/openbmc/openbmc/issues/2223
>
> As fan control is already doing the right thing when it reads the values
> as they are now, we deprioritized the work quite a bit so it still
> isn't scheduled and may not be until later systems.

Okay. Lets get that work scheduled ASAP, as it's already been quite
some time since we needed that fixed. I think it's now holding up the
Witherspoon team from moving to the new kernel.

Do you have an ETA?

Cheers,

Joel