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

[Matt Spinler]

On 3/12/2018 10:26 PM, Joel Stanley wrote:
> 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?

We're going to try to start work on it next sprint, so done in about a 
month give or take.

> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Joel
>