Creates a name file in the sysfs directory, that is needed for the libsensors library to work. This fixes bug #11520: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11520 Signed-off-by: Corentin Chary <corentincj at iksaif.net> Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali at linux-fr.org> --- I am adding this patch to my personal hwmon tree and will be sending it to Linus soon. Testers welcome. drivers/misc/eeepc-laptop.c | 8 ++++++++ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+) --- linux-2.6.27-rc7.orig/drivers/misc/eeepc-laptop.c 2008-09-23 17:18:33.000000000 +0200 +++ linux-2.6.27-rc7/drivers/misc/eeepc-laptop.c 2008-09-24 10:26:35.000000000 +0200 @@ -525,10 +525,18 @@ EEEPC_CREATE_SENSOR_ATTR(fan1_pwm, S_IRU EEEPC_CREATE_SENSOR_ATTR(pwm1_enable, S_IRUGO | S_IWUSR, eeepc_get_fan_ctrl, eeepc_set_fan_ctrl); +static ssize_t +show_name(struct device *dev, struct device_attribute *attr, char *buf) +{ + return sprintf(buf, "eeepc\n"); +} +static SENSOR_DEVICE_ATTR(name, S_IRUGO, show_name, NULL, 0); + static struct attribute *hwmon_attributes[] = { &sensor_dev_attr_fan1_pwm.dev_attr.attr, &sensor_dev_attr_fan1_input.dev_attr.attr, &sensor_dev_attr_pwm1_enable.dev_attr.attr, + &sensor_dev_attr_name.dev_attr.attr, NULL }; -- Jean Delvare
