Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH script] hwmon: Use octal not symbolic permissions | From | Guenter Roeck <> | Date | Tue, 27 Mar 2018 08:44:21 -0700 |
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On 03/27/2018 04:48 AM, Joe Perches wrote: > On Tue, 2018-03-27 at 03:28 -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote: >> On 03/27/2018 12:35 AM, Joe Perches wrote: >>> On Mon, 2018-03-26 at 23:33 -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote: >>>> Since the hwmon subsystem has been labeled as both "obsolete" and "obscure", >>> >>> fyi: It's marked Maintained in MAINTAINERS >>> >> >> I did not say that it was not maintained, and I am aware of the information >> in the MAINTAINERS file, thanks. > > As am I. > > I do agree that hwmon is obscure. Almost everything about > anything is obscure to those that don't fully understand it. > > I am unaware though of any use of "obsolete" in drivers/hwmon/ > or in Documentation/ about hwmon or the wiki/ > > In what sense do you mean hwmon is obsolete? >
_I_ did not say it was obsolete. It was described as obsolete by a maintainer of a different subsystem at a conference a couple of years ago. If I wasn't too lazy, I could try to find the presentation, but I don't see the point.
> And the cocci script? > > Anything later than: > https://systeme.lip6.fr/pipermail/cocci/2016-December/003887.html > https://github.com/groeck/coccinelle-patches/tree/master/hwmon > ? > I don't think I ever published it. If I recall correctly, it required some cleanup patches to be applied first, but then I gave up on the idea because I didn't want to proceed without code reviews.
> btw: I think the perl scripts I posted for DEV_ATTR_<RW|RO|WO> > transforms are simpler and less prone to tool versioning > issues. > > https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/12/22/844 > > It'd be fairly simple to add SENSOR_ support. >
I'll keep it in mind.
Thanks, Guenter
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