netdev - Re: [PATCH 0/5] net: hwmon fixes

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Date:	Sat, 23 Nov 2013 09:07:05 -0800
From:	Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>
To:	Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>
CC:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com>,
	Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@...el.com>,
	Bruce Allan <bruce.w.allan@...el.com>,
	Carolyn Wyborny <carolyn.wyborny@...el.com>,
	Don Skidmore <donald.c.skidmore@...el.com>,
	Greg Rose <gregory.v.rose@...el.com>,
	Nithin Nayak Sujir <nsujir@...adcom.com>,
	Michael Chan <mchan@...adcom.com>,
	e1000-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net, lm-sensors@...sensors.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5] net: hwmon fixes

On 11/23/2013 08:48 AM, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> On Fri, 2013-11-22 at 22:07 -0800, Guenter Roeck wrote:
>> The hwmon subsystem is used by various network drivers to report temperature
>> sensor and other information. Unfortunately, its use is often not correct.
>> Typical errors are that the mandatory name sysfs attribute is not created,
>> that the temperature sensor index starts with 0 instead of 1, and/or that
>> sysfs attributes are created after the hwmon device was created.
>
> As it happens, I was just looking at what we do in sfc
> (drivers/net/ethernet/sfc/mcdi_mon.c) and wondering why I made it create
> the hwmon device before the attributes.  I think I avoided the other
> bugs though.
>
Hi Ben,

Yes, I know about that one. It concluded that it would be too invasive
and risky to try to fix it without access to hardware to test the results.
That is why I said "fixes _most_ of the problems".

As for why the attributes are created after registration, it was most likely
because there was no API available to attach the sysfs attributes to
the hwmon device in a clean way. The new APIs fix that.

Thanks,
Guenter

> Ben.
>
>> The following sequence of patches fixes most of the problems.
>>
>> The igb patches have been tested with real hardware; the others are compile
>> tested only.
>

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