Re: [lm-sensors] [PATCH] hwmon: (max6650) Rename the device ids to contain the hwmon suffix

[Jean Delvare]

Le Tuesday 11 February 2014 Ã 08:28 +0000, Laszlo Papp a Ãcrit :
> On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 7:50 AM, Jean Delvare <jdelvare@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Hi Laszlo,
> >
> > On Tue, 11 Feb 2014 03:13:37 +0000, Laszlo Papp wrote:
> >> On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 4:38 PM, Jean Delvare <jdelvare@xxxxxxx> 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?

I'm giving up here, sorry. There's no point in me writing any more on
the topic as you are not listening to me. I do not have the impression
you are doing any effort to understand what I'm saying. Plus you keep
focusing on things that do not matter and problems for which a solution
has already been provided. So wherever you're going, this is without me.

-- 
Jean Delvare
Suse L3 Support

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