linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] w1: Add 1-wire slave device driver for DS28E04-100

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Message-ID: <4FA1953B.40008@hrz.tu-chemnitz.de>
Date:	Wed, 02 May 2012 22:12:43 +0200
From:	Markus Franke <markus.franke@...02.tu-chemnitz.de>
To:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
CC:	Markus Franke <markus.franke@...02.tu-chemnitz.de>,
	Evgeniy Polyakov <zbr@...emap.net>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] w1: Add 1-wire slave device driver for DS28E04-100

Dear Greg,

Am 30.04.2012 04:13, schrieb Greg KH:
> On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 12:40:30AM +0200, Markus Franke wrote:
>> This patch adds a 1-wire slave device driver for the DS28E04-100.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Markus Franke<franm@....tu-chemnitz.de>
>> Acked-by: Evgeniy Polyakov<zbr@...emap.net>
>
> You have a lot of checkpatch warnings and errors, and you are creating

Don't have a clue what you mean. You were able to apply the patch 
successfully in the past.

> new sysfs files with no documentation at all as to what you are doing,
> and why you are doing it.  sysfs binary files at that, which should not
> be used by ANY code that is trying to intrepret the data being sent to
> those files, sysfs binary files are for "pass-through" mode only.

Well, I just stuck to the way things are done in already existing 
drivers e.g. drivers/w1/slaves/w1_ds2433.c

@Evgeniy: Any comments on this?

Best regards,

Markus Franke

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