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    hwmon: (lm75) Tune resolution and sample time per chip · 0cd2c72d
    Jean Delvare authored
    
    
    Most LM75-compatible chips can either sample much faster or with a
    much better resolution than the original LM75 chip. So far the lm75
    driver did not let the user take benefit of these improvements. Do it
    now.
    
    I decided to almost always configure the chip to use the best
    resolution possible, which also means the longest sample time. The
    only chips for which I didn't are the DS75, DS1775 and STDS75, because
    they are really too slow in 12-bit mode (1.2 to 1.5 second worst case)
    so I went for 11-bit mode as a more reasonable tradeoff. This choice is
    dictated by the fact that the hwmon subsystem is meant for system
    monitoring, it has never been supposed to be ultra-fast, and as a
    matter of fact we do cache the sampled values in almost all drivers.
    
    If anyone isn't pleased with these default settings, they can always
    introduce a platform data structure or DT support for the lm75. That
    being said, it seems nobody ever complained that the driver wouldn't
    refresh the value faster than every 1.5 second, and the change made
    it faster for all chips even in 12-bit mode, so I don't expect any
    complaint.
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarJean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
    Acked-by: default avatarGuenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
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