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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 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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