Date: Sat, 6 Jul 2013 13:14:32 -0700
From: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
To: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>, lm-sensors@lm-sensors.org,
        linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 3/5] hwmon: (ds1621) Convert to use
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On Sat, Jul 06, 2013 at 09:59:57PM +0200, Jean Delvare wrote:
> On Sat, 6 Jul 2013 12:48:03 -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> > Another option would be to create a class attribute to return the parent driver
> > name for spi and i2c devices and otherwise the hwmon driver name. This would
> > reduce the amount of code needed in the drivers. Jean, do you see a problem with
> > that approach (except that we would have to remove explicit name attributes from
> > existing drivers) ?
> 
> A class attribute is what I had in mind in my previous reply. However I
> do not understand the "hwmon driver name" in your sentence above.

s/driver/device/

> Device name != driver name. But well I'm sure I'll understand what you
> mean as soon as you show us a candidate implementation ;)
> 
Guess so :)

Guenter
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