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Date:	Mon, 4 Mar 2013 03:32:19 +0000
From:	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
To:	Ley Foon Tan <lftan@...era.com>
Cc:	"Greg Kroah-Hartman" <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	Rob Landley <rob@...dley.net>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-doc@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] drivers/misc: Add Altera System ID driver

On Monday 04 March 2013, Ley Foon Tan wrote:
> This patch is to add Altera System ID driver.
> User can obtain the system ID and timestamp of the system by
> reading the sysfs entry.
> 
> Usage:
> cat /sys/bus/platform/devices/[addr].sysid/sysid/id
> cat /sys/bus/platform/devices/[addr].sysid/sysid/timestamp
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ley Foon Tan <lftan@...era.com>

All sysfs files need documentation in Documentation/ABI/.

This driver looks like it should instead be using the infrastructure we
have for identifying an SoC in drivers/base/soc.c, which is currently
only used by the ARM u8500 platform but was introduced as a generic
interface for this a while ago.

	Arnd
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