[PATCH v2 0/5] hwmon: (ibmpowernv) remove dependency on OPAL index

Cedric Le Goater clg at fr.ibm.com
Sat Mar 21 03:52:38 AEDT 2015


On 03/20/2015 04:26 PM, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 06:44:40PM +0100, Cédric Le Goater wrote:
>> Hello !
>>
>> The current implementation of the driver uses an index for the hwmon 
>> attribute which is extracted from the device node name. This index
>> is calculated by the OPAL firmware and its usage creates a dependency 
>> with the driver which makes changes a little more complex in OPAL.
>>
>> This patchset changes the ibmpowernv code to use its own index. It 
>> starts with a few cleanups, mostly code shuffling around the creation 
>> of the hwmon sysfs attributes and completes by removing the dependency.
>>
> Series applied to hwmon-next (with patch #4 fixed up).

Thanks !

C.



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