linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 05/11] touchscreen: elants: Use octal permissions

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Message-ID: <5ac390c1cdf14656624dcc1f2816ab4d694d0d4f.camel@perches.com>
Date:   Mon, 23 Jul 2018 11:30:40 -0700
From:   Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:     Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>
Cc:     Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@...il.com>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        dev-harsh1998 <harshitjain6751@...il.com>, trivial@...nel.org,
        Simon Budig <simon.budig@...nelconcepts.de>,
        Andi Shyti <andi@...zian.org>,
        Luca Ceresoli <luca@...aceresoli.net>,
        linux-input@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 05/11] touchscreen: elants: Use octal permissions

On Mon, 2018-07-23 at 11:24 -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> There are much more urgent issues to fix there (such as, for example,
> converting the "offending" drivers to the latest API, which would
> magically cause most of the offenders to disappear).

Perhaps posting a list of desired hwmon changes could help.

Documentation/hwmon/submitting-patches does not seem to specify
what the "latest API" is nor describe what changes would be
required in older drivers.