Re: [PATCH 2/3] hwmon: (nct6775) Implement custom lock by ACPI mutex.

[Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>]

On 11/25/21 5:14 AM, Eugene Shalygin wrote:
> Dear Andy, Denis, and Günter,
> 
> Denis worked on my code with the first attempt to read EC sensors from
> ASUS motherboards and submitted it as a driver named
> "asus_wmi_ec_sensors", which is not in hwmon-next. Now he adds the
> ACPI lock feature to support other motherboards, and I have another
> iteration of the EC sensor driver under development (needs some
> polishment) that utilizes the same concept (ACPI lock instead of WMI
> methods), which is smaller, cleaner and faster than the WMI-based one.
> I'm going to submit it to the mainline too. I think it should replace
> the WMI one. In anticipation of that, can we change the name of the
> accepted driver (asus_wmi_ec_sensors -> asus_ec_sensors) now, in order
> to not confuse users in the next version and to remove implementation
> detail from the module name? The drivers provide indistinguishable
> data to HWMON.
> 

Two drivers with the same functionality ? What would be the benefit of that ?
Why not drop the current one entirely instead ?

Guenter