[PATCH 7/7] hwmon: Port TEMPMON sensor driver

[Andrey Smirnov]

On Mon, Dec 7, 2015 at 11:52 AM, Trent Piepho <tpiepho at kymetacorp.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 2015-12-07 at 11:40 -0800, Andrey Smirnov wrote:
>> On Mon, Dec 7, 2015 at 11:05 AM, Trent Piepho <tpiepho at kymetacorp.com> wrote:
>> > On Sun, 2015-12-06 at 23:52 -0800, Andrey Smirnov wrote:
>> >> +
>> >> +       imx_thermal->sensor.name = of_get_property(dev->device_node,
>> >> +
>> >> "barebox,sensor-name",
>> >> +                                                  NULL);
>> >
>> > Wouldn't aliases the proper OF way to do this?
>>
>> I must admit I am not familiar with the feature you are talking about
>> (or maybe I am just not understanding what you mean well), can you
>> give me a very brief example? Given my ignorance I wouldn't be
>> surprised that it is.
>
> There is an aliases section at the root of the OF tree, which has
> properties set to a phandle for the device the property's name serves as
> an alias for.  There was a patch to this list last week sometime that
> added alias support to the at24 driver for naming eeproms.

Ah, I see. Yes, that definitely would be a better way to do what I am
trying to do. I'll keep that feature in mind for next version of the
patch.

Thank you,
Andrey