linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/1] drivers/misc: Add Altera System ID driver

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Message-ID: <20130304034430.GA1274@kroah.com>
Date:	Mon, 4 Mar 2013 11:44:30 +0800
From:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
Cc:	Ley Foon Tan <lftan@...era.com>, 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 Mon, Mar 04, 2013 at 03:32:19AM +0000, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> 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.

I agree, this shouldn't be a one-off sysfs file.

greg k-h
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