Re: [PATCH 5.4 1/2] hwmon: Introduce hwmon_device_register_for_thermal

[Guenter Roeck]

On Wed, Jun 22, 2022 at 05:39:50PM +0200, Julian Haller wrote:
> > On Wed, Jun 22, 2022 at 04:49:01PM +0200, Julian Haller wrote:
> > > From: Guenter Roeck <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > 
> > > [ upstream commit e5d21072054fbadf41cd56062a3a14e447e8c22b ]
> > > 
> > > The thermal subsystem registers a hwmon driver without providing
> > > chip or sysfs group information. This is for legacy reasons and
> > > would be difficult to change. At the same time, we want to enforce
> > > that chip information is provided when registering a hwmon device
> > > using hwmon_device_register_with_info(). To enable this, introduce
> > > a special API for use only by the thermal subsystem.
> > > 
> > > Acked-by: Rafael J . Wysocki <rafael@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > 
> > What is the point of applying those patches to the 5.4 kernel ?
> > This was intended for use with new code, not for stable releases.
> > 
> > Guenter
> 
> The upstream commit ddaefa209c4ac791c1262e97c9b2d0440c8ef1d5 ("hwmon: Make chip
> parameter for with_info API mandatory") was backported to the 5.4 kernel as
> part of v5.4.198, see commit 1ec0bc72f5dab3ab367ae5230cf6f212d805a225. This
> breaks the hwmon device registration in the thermal drivers as these two
> patches here have been left out. We either need to include them as well or
> revert the original commit.
> 
> I'm also not sure why the original commit found its way into the 5.4 stable
> branch.
> 

I had complained about this backport to other branches before. That patch
was not a bug fix, it was neither intended nor marked for stable releases,
and it should be reverted from all stable branches.

Guenter