On Fri, Jun 03, 2005 at 02:25:43AM -0400, Yani Ioannou wrote: > Hi Mark, > > I'm trying to implement the hwmon interface in ipmi_sensors (the > re-written driver based on bmcsensors w/o i2c-ipmi), but I can't find > any device struct that I could pass when registering the hwmon class, > the ipmi system simply doesn't seem to define any, I thought that > perhaps the bmc interfaces would have an associated one at least. > > The problem essentially is, unlike the i2c/isa sensor chip drivers, > ipmi_sensors isn't a device driver as such, it is an lm-sensors > interface to the sensors available to an IPMI BMC. Which is a platform device. Or if not, it should be. There is your struct device. > I just come back to my previous line of thought that we really should > be using class_device_attributes for hwmon class sensor attributes > rather than assuming that every hwmon class_device has an associated > device... No, every hwmon class_device should have a struct device associated with it. If not, it needs to be fixed :) thanks, greg k-h
