On Sat, 6 Jul 2013 12:48:03 -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote: > Another option would be to create a class attribute to return the parent > driver > name for spi and i2c devices and otherwise the hwmon driver name. This would > reduce the amount of code needed in the drivers. Jean, do you see a problem > with > that approach (except that we would have to remove explicit name attributes > from > existing drivers) ?
A class attribute is what I had in mind in my previous reply. However I do not understand the "hwmon driver name" in your sentence above. Device name != driver name. But well I'm sure I'll understand what you mean as soon as you show us a candidate implementation ;) -- Jean Delvare -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
