On Sat, Mar 13, 2004 at 06:53:02PM +0100, Jean Delvare wrote: > Hi Greg, > > A number of chip drivers in 2.6.4-mm1 try to handle an error case that > cannot happen when setting the chip name. The following patch changes > that. > > Affected drivers: adm1021, it87, lm75, lm78, lm85, w83627hf, w83781d. > > Note that in any case, the worst that could happen (but then again, it > cannot happen) is that the chip name would be set to an empty string, > which doesn't hurt much. > > The patch also cleans up a few things in it87, w83627hf and w83781d, > which are tightly related to the rest of the changes and necessary for > them to be safe. > > it87: There is only really one "kind" in this driver, so I removed all > references to other kinds. > > w83627hf: The driver did not handle unknown chips. > > w83781d: The user shouldn't be allowed to force a kind that doesn't > match the chip's bus type (I2C or ISA). The code was not meant to handle > that case, although no check was done so far. > > Tested on my AS99127F, works as intended. > > Please apply, Applied, thanks. greg k-h
