netdev - Re: [PATCH v1 0/2] hwmon: introduce hwmon

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Date:   Mon, 28 Mar 2022 16:00:10 -0700
From:   Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
To:     Michael Walle <michael@...le.cc>
Cc:     Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>, Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>,
        Xu Yilun <yilun.xu@...el.com>, Tom Rix <trix@...hat.com>,
        Jean Delvare <jdelvare@...e.com>,
        Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@...il.com>,
        Russell King <linux@...linux.org.uk>,
        "David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>, linux-hwmon@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 0/2] hwmon: introduce hwmon_sanitize()

On Tue, 29 Mar 2022 00:50:28 +0200 Michael Walle wrote:
> > No, it isn't the easiest solution because it also modifies a hwmon
> > driver to use it.  
> 
> So that leaves us with option 1? The next version will contain the
> additional patch which moves the hwmon_is_bad_char() from the include
> to the core and make it private. That will then need an immutable
> branch from netdev to get merged back into hwmon before that patch
> can be applied, right?

If anything immutable branch from hwmon that we can pull, because hwmon
is the home of the API, and netdev is just _a_ consumer.

Either way I think you can post the patch that adds the new helper
for review.