[PATCH v3 0/3] Allow iio_hwmon to accept hypen in node names

Guenter Roeck linux at roeck-us.net
Tue Feb 16 19:37:45 PST 2016


On 02/15/2016 09:00 PM, Sanchayan Maity wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Initial versions of the patchset intended to introduce the use of
> iio_hwmon for Vybrid SoC's. Currently the iio_hwmon driver has two
> users and as per the binding documentation, the node names use the
> underscore. Use of hypen in device tree node names is acceptable,
> however currently the hwmon core code rejects it due to perhaps user
> space not liking the hypen and getting confused.
>
> As per Guenter Roeck's suggestion, the first patch looks for a hypen
> and replaces it with a underscore in the probe call of iio_hwmon driver
> before calling hwmon_device_register_with_groups for registration. Any
> users of iio_hwmon driver can now use hypen in the node name.
>
> As per Shawn's suggestion, the existing users have been changed to use
> the hypen instead of the underscore and the iio-bindings document
> updated. Third patch introduces the usage for Vybrid itself.
>
> Patchset is based on top of shawn's for-next branch.
>
> Feedbacks and comments most welcome. Thank you for feedbacks.
>
> @Guenter
> I hope I understood and implemented correctly what you had in mind.
>
Yes.

Series applied to hwmon-next (if the dts changes also end up in an arm branch,
no harm done).

Thanks,
Guenter




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