Re: [PATCH v2 10/11] hwmon: (scmi-hwmon) Match scmi device by both name and protocol id

From: Guenter Roeck
Date: Sat Jan 04 2020 - 11:20:22 EST


On Wed, Dec 18, 2019 at 11:17:41AM +0000, Sudeep Holla wrote:
> The scmi bus now has support to match the driver with devices not only
> based on their protocol id but also based on their device name if one is
> available. This was added to cater the need to support multiple devices
> and drivers for the same protocol.
>
> Let us add the name "hwmon" to scmi_device_id table in the driver so
> that in matches only with device with the same name and protocol id
> SCMI_PROTOCOL_SENSOR. This is just for sake of completion and must
> not be used to add IIO support in parallel. Instead, if IIO support is
> added ever in future, we need to drop this hwmon driver entirely and
> use the iio->hwmon bridge to access the sensors as hwmon devices if
> needed.
>

Acked-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

[ assuming the series will be pushed into the kernel together ]

> Cc: Guenter Roeck <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: linux-hwmon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Signed-off-by: Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@xxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/hwmon/scmi-hwmon.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/hwmon/scmi-hwmon.c b/drivers/hwmon/scmi-hwmon.c
> index 8a7732c0bef3..286d3cfda7de 100644
> --- a/drivers/hwmon/scmi-hwmon.c
> +++ b/drivers/hwmon/scmi-hwmon.c
> @@ -259,7 +259,7 @@ static int scmi_hwmon_probe(struct scmi_device *sdev)
> }
>
> static const struct scmi_device_id scmi_id_table[] = {
> - { SCMI_PROTOCOL_SENSOR },
> + { SCMI_PROTOCOL_SENSOR, "hwmon" },
> { },
> };
> MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE(scmi, scmi_id_table);