On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 10:22 AM, Laszlo Papp <lp...@kde.org> wrote: > On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 8:50 AM, Lee Jones <lee.jo...@linaro.org> wrote: >>> >> On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 4:38 PM, Jean Delvare <jdelv...@suse.de> wrote: >>> >> > Additionally, dashes are explicitly forbidden in hwmon >>> >> > device names. >>> >> >>> >> Also, where is that documented? >>> > >>> > In Documentation/hwmon/sysfs-interface: >>> > >>> > ********************* >>> > * Global attributes * >>> > ********************* >>> > >>> > name The chip name. >>> > This should be a short, lowercase string, not containing >>> > spaces nor dashes, representing the chip name. This is >>> > the only mandatory attribute. >>> > I2C devices get this attribute created automatically. >>> > RO >>> >>> Time to revisit this decision.... >>> >>> So, based on the fact that children device names usually contain >>> dashes, I do not understand why hwmon would be any special in this >>> regard. It is possible that the hwmon developers have not faced much >>> MFD situation before, and so, this was not considered to be handled >>> like in other subsystems. >>> >>> I am proposing to change this "rule"... Any objection? >> >> Prior to proposing such an invasive change which is highly likely to >> come up against heavy opposition, why don't you try to work _with_ the >> current ruling and the Maintainers to see what others have done to >> solve the problem. I highly doubt you are the first/only developer who >> has had this issue. >> >> Do: >> `git grep "\-hwmon"` >> >> ... and have a good look around for an accepted solution. > > Well, this did not bring up relevant results, at least for my > understanding, but I will send a new patch with the > devm_hwmon_device_register_ > with_groups() stuff based on my little understanding without further help.
https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/2/11/155 but I do not know how to enable the different devices conditionally. What is the best practice for this in the kernel? (We can continue it in there) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
