From: Christian Schneider <christian@xxxxxxxx> sysfs_notify and kobject_uevent are passed the wrong kobject. that why notifications can't be received and uevents have the wrong path. this patch fixes this. Signed-off-by: Christian Schneider <cschneider@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/hwmon/gpio-fan.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/hwmon/gpio-fan.c b/drivers/hwmon/gpio-fan.c index 84753680a4e8..76377791ff0e 100644 --- a/drivers/hwmon/gpio-fan.c +++ b/drivers/hwmon/gpio-fan.c @@ -54,8 +54,8 @@ static void fan_alarm_notify(struct work_struct *ws) struct gpio_fan_data *fan_data = container_of(ws, struct gpio_fan_data, alarm_work); - sysfs_notify(&fan_data->dev->kobj, NULL, "fan1_alarm"); - kobject_uevent(&fan_data->dev->kobj, KOBJ_CHANGE); + sysfs_notify(&fan_data->hwmon_dev->kobj, NULL, "fan1_alarm"); + kobject_uevent(&fan_data->hwmon_dev->kobj, KOBJ_CHANGE); } static irqreturn_t fan_alarm_irq_handler(int irq, void *dev_id) -- 2.17.1