Messages in this thread | | | From | Arnd Bergmann <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/1] drivers/misc: Add Altera System ID driver | Date | Mon, 4 Mar 2013 03:32:19 +0000 |
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On Monday 04 March 2013, Ley Foon Tan wrote: > This patch is to add Altera System ID driver. > User can obtain the system ID and timestamp of the system by > reading the sysfs entry. > > Usage: > cat /sys/bus/platform/devices/[addr].sysid/sysid/id > cat /sys/bus/platform/devices/[addr].sysid/sysid/timestamp > > Signed-off-by: Ley Foon Tan <lftan@altera.com>
All sysfs files need documentation in Documentation/ABI/.
This driver looks like it should instead be using the infrastructure we have for identifying an SoC in drivers/base/soc.c, which is currently only used by the ARM u8500 platform but was introduced as a generic interface for this a while ago.
Arnd
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