On 二, 2013-08-27 at 23:17 +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > On Tuesday, August 27, 2013 02:26:41 PM Eduardo Valentin wrote: > > On 23-08-2013 19:08, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > > > On Friday, August 23, 2013 06:03:14 PM Eduardo Valentin wrote: > > >> When registering a new thermal_device, the thermal framework > > >> will always add a hwmon sysfs interface. > > >> > > >> This patch adds a flag to make this behavior optional. Now > > >> when registering a new thermal device, the caller needs > > >> to say if the hwmon interface is required. > > >> > > >> In order to keep same behavior as of today, all current > > >> calls will by default create the hwmon interface. > > > > > > Well, instead of modifying all of the callers this way, why don't > > > you add new versions taking the additional argument as, for example, > > > > > > thermal_zone_device_register_full() > > > > > > and redefine the old ones as static inline wrappers, for example > > > > > > static inline struct thermal_zone_device *thermal_zone_device_register(args) > > > { > > > return thermal_zone_device_register_full(args, true); > > > } > > > > > > ? > > > > Yeah, that is another way to go and I thought of doing it like that. I > > just could not come out with a good API naming: > > > > thermal_zone_device_register_full(all args) > > > > thermal_zone_device_register(args) /* on hwmon == true */ > > thermal_zone_device_register_no_hwmon(args) /* on hwmon == false */ > > > > Would this sound reasonable naming? > > Yeah, sounds good to me. > Well, actually, Tianyu is working on a patch set to move all the thermal_zone_device_register() parameters to struct thermal_zone_params. But with that patch set done, what you need to do next is just to introduce a new field in struct thermal_zone_params and make sure 0 means registering hwmon sysfs I/F. thanks, rui > Thanks, > Rafael > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe devicetree" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html