Re: [PATCH 3/3] hwmon/f71882fg: Make the decision wether to register fan attr. per fan

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On Mon, 2011-09-12 at 13:26 -0400, Hans de Goede wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On 09/12/2011 07:23 PM, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> > On Fri, 2011-09-09 at 06:12 -0400, Hans de Goede wrote:
> >> Before this patch the f71882fg driver completely fails to initialize
> >> on systems which have reserved settings in the pwm enable register, and
> >> it disables all auto pwm sysfs attributes if any fan is controlled by
> >> a digital sensor reading.
> >>
> >> This patch changes the fail to initialize into don't register any attributes
> >> for the fan for which there are reserved settings in the pwm enable register
> >> and also makes the not registering of auto pwm sysfs attributes a per fan
> >> thing.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede<hdegoede@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > Given that this is no longer a pure hwmon driver, it may make sense to
> > split it into separate mfd/hwmon/watchdog drivers. But on the other side
> > I notice that other drivers in the hwmon directory implement watchdog
> > functionality as well. Bad precedent :(. Wonder what happens with those
> > watchdogs if HWMON is disabled.
> >
> > Not really sure if we should let this happen, or start being more
> > restrictive and enforce cleaner code. Jean, any thoughts/comments ?
> 
> It seems that you put this reply in the wrong thread? Can you please copy
> paste to the right thread (with the CC list intact so that the watchdog people
> get it too). Then I'll reply there.
> 
Oops. Not my day :(.

Guenter



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