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

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Date:   Wed, 15 Feb 2017 20:51:53 +0100
From:   Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
To:     Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc:     "Loh, Tien Hock" <tien.hock.loh@...el.com>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        thloh85@...il.com, matthew.gerlach@...el.com, dinh.nguyen@...el.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] drivers/misc: Add Intel System ID driver

On Wed, Feb 15, 2017 at 6:17 PM, Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 15, 2017 at 07:09:41PM +0800, thloh wrote:
>> From: "Loh, Tien Hock" <tien.hock.loh@...el.com>
>>
>> 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
>
> If you add new sysfs attributes, you need to also add a
> Documentation/ABI/ description as well.

Maybe we could pretend that this is for a SoC and use the standard soc_device
attributes as well as moving the driver into drivers/soc/?

     Arnd