[Intel-xe] [PATCH v2 0/6] Add HWMON support for DGFX

[Dixit, Ashutosh]

On Tue, 27 Jun 2023 11:30:37 -0700, Badal Nilawar wrote:
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Hi Badal,

> This series adds the hwmon support on xe driver for DGFX

Needs some discussion but I have a general comment on this series
first. The implementation here follow what was done for i915. But how
"hwmon attributes are defined" I think we should look at how this was done
in other drm drivers, namely amdgpu and radeon. Look here (search for
"hwmon_attributes"):

drivers/gpu/drm/amd/pm/amdgpu_pm.c, and
drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/radeon_pm.c

Here the hwmon attribute definition is very similar to how general sysfs
attributes are defined (they will just appear in hwmon directories) and
does not carry baggage of the hwmon infrastructure (what i915 has). So my
preference is to shift to this amd/radeon way for xe.

There is also a separate discussion on whether to use hwmon sysfs for other
custom attributes, as has been done in these other drm drivers, and using
this light-weight method should help if we went this route too.

Thanks.
--
Ashutosh