Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 11 Feb 2014 03:13:37 +0000 | Subject | Re: [lm-sensors] [PATCH] hwmon: (max6650) Rename the device ids to contain the hwmon suffix | From | Laszlo Papp <> |
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On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 4:38 PM, Jean Delvare <jdelvare@suse.de> wrote: > Additionally, dashes are explicitly forbidden in hwmon > device names.
Also, where is that documented?
I do not think you can make such a decision, and you will realize that once you begin to think a bit out of the box and look around. See how other children are managed for MFD devices. "driver-subsystem" is a pretty common a schema. I do not really see any point in forbidding dashes currently. Please do elaborate about the reasons, and the fact that why it is undocuemented.
Also, I currently do not understand what you are suggesting: just leave this technically unreasonable situation as is for compatibility reasons? There is no better support in place for appending further alternative names?
In any case, at the very least, I hope the lesson is learnt for the future from this past mistake. If a chip is MFD'ish, a subdevice driver should not ever be added with such an id.
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