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

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Date:	Mon, 25 Nov 2013 17:15:50 +0000
From:	Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>
To:	Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>
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 Sat, 2013-11-23 at 09:07 -0800, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> 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.

We don't attach them to the hwmon device either, and I would rather not
change that yet because lm-sensors 2 is still widely used.

Ben.

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