Re: [PATCH v2] thinkpad_acpi: revert unintentional device attribute renaming

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On Tue, May 19, 2015, at 14:45, Bjørn Mork wrote:
> The conversion to DEVICE_ATTR_* macros failed to fixup a few cases where
> the old attribute names didn't match the show/store function names.
> Instead of renaming the functions, the attributes were renamed. This
> caused an unintentional API change.  The hwmon required 'name' attribute
> were among the renamed attribute, causing libsensors to fail to detect
> the hwmon device at all.
> 
> Fix by using the DEVICE_ATTR macro for these attributes, allowing the
> show/store functions to keep their system specific prefixes.
> 
> Fixes: b4dd04ac6ef8 ("thinkpad_acpi: use DEVICE_ATTR_* macros")
> Cc: Bastien Nocera <hadess@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Bjørn Mork <bjorn@xxxxxxx>
> ---
> v2: kept the original function names, using the DEVICE_ATTR instead

Acked-by: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@xxxxxxxxxx>

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  Henrique Holschuh
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