linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] hwmon: (ibmpowernv) Use platform 'id

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Date:	Mon, 10 Nov 2014 10:04:57 +1100
From:	Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>
To:	Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>
Cc:	Neelesh Gupta <neelegup@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>, jdelvare@...e.de,
	benh@....ibm.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	michaele@....ibm.com, linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org,
	lm-sensors@...sensors.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] hwmon: (ibmpowernv) Use platform 'id_table' to probe
 the device

On Wed, 2014-11-05 at 06:21 -0800, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 05, 2014 at 04:45:14PM +0530, Neelesh Gupta wrote:
> > The current driver probe() function assumes the sensor device to be
> > alwary present and gets executed every time if the driver is loaded,
> > but the appropriate hardware could not be present.
> > 
> > So, move the platform device creation as part of platform init code
> > and use the 'id_table' to check if the device present or not.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Neelesh Gupta <neelegup@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
> 
> Looks good. We'll need an ack from one of the powerpc maintainers to proceed.

Looks OK to me.

Acked-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>

cheers


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