linux-kernel - RE: [PATCH] hwmon: Consider LM64 temperature offset

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Date:	Tue, 8 Feb 2011 16:54:52 +0100
From:	"Eibach, Dirk" <Eibach@...ys.de>
To:	"Guenter Roeck" <guenter.roeck@...csson.com>
Cc:	<linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, <khali@...ux-fr.org>,
	<lm-sensors@...sensors.org>
Subject: RE: [PATCH] hwmon: Consider LM64 temperature offset


Dear Guenter, 

> Chip id is already detected in lm63_detect. You don't need to 
> detect it again.
> The more common approach would be something along the line of
> 	data->kind = id->driver_data;
>     You would then use
> 	if (data->kind == lm64)
>     throughout the code. In addition to that, you could define
> 	data->kind = id->driver_data;
> 	if (data->kind == lm64)
> 		data->offset = 16000;
>     which would save you the repeated recalculation of offset 
> as mentioned before.

I don't understand, what structures "data" and "id" you are referring to
here and where the fields driver_data and kind come from. I remember to
have seen such in older kernels, but wasn't that replaced sometime ago?

Cheers
Dirk


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