lkml.org 
[lkml]   [2015]   [Jan]   [21]   [last100]   RSS Feed
Views: [wrap][no wrap]   [headers]  [forward] 
 
Messages in this thread
/
Date
From
SubjectRe: [PATCH] net: dsa: set parent of hwmon device
Hi Guenter, Florian,

>>> - ds->hwmon_dev = hwmon_device_register_with_groups(NULL,
>>> + ds->hwmon_dev = hwmon_device_register_with_groups(parent,
>>> ds->hwmon_name, ds, dsa_hwmon_groups);
>>> if (IS_ERR(ds->hwmon_dev))
>>> ds->hwmon_dev = NULL;
>>
>> Looking into my old e-mail, turns out we did not add the parent
>> device because it affected the output of the "sensors" command, and
>> we wanted the device to be handled as 'virtual device' (which implies
>> no parent). That was an explicit part of the patch set (v2 of 'net:
>> dsa: Add support for reporting switch chip temperatures'), compared
>> to v1, which did set the parent device.

I don't know about the "sensors" output, but I found that convenient
from the sysfs side to have a hierarchy of sub-devices logically exposed
at the same place, i.e.:

# ls /sys/devices/platform/dsa.0
driver hwmon net ...

>> I would suggest to keep the code as is.

> Maybe follow-up with a comment adding that above the call to
> hwmon_device_register_with_groups()? I suspect the intent is clear if
> you are deep into hwmon devices, but not necessarily for the reader ;)

Thanks,
-v


\
 
 \ /
  Last update: 2015-01-21 17:41    [W:0.082 / U:0.180 seconds]
©2003-2020 Jasper Spaans|hosted at Digital Ocean and TransIP|Read the blog|Advertise on this site