Re: [PATCH 1/2 V3] applesmc: Use PnP rather than hardcodingresources and devices

[Henrik Rydberg]

> Hm. Is this an oops or a lockdep warning?

It is a null-pointer dereference in sysfs_create_file(). Probably the
kernel is asking the same question as I did - do you actually see the
sysfs nodes when testing the patch?

> > So where to attach the sysfs nodes... There is also a userspace issue
> > here, since a lot of applications are hard-wired to
> > /sys/devices/platform/applesmc.768/.
> 
> The correct sysfs ABI is to use the /sys/class interface and the names 
> under there rather than assuming a hardwired platform device path.

Still breaks user-space, but it seems this is already under control.

Thanks,
Henrik
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