Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756407Ab3ICP1j (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Sep 2013 11:27:39 -0400 Received: from mail-pa0-f45.google.com ([209.85.220.45]:62822 "EHLO mail-pa0-f45.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753956Ab3ICP1i (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Sep 2013 11:27:38 -0400 Date: Tue, 3 Sep 2013 08:27:31 -0700 From: Guenter Roeck To: Jean Delvare , Greg Kroah-Hartman , lm-sensors@lm-sensors.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/9] Introduce hwmon_device_register_with_groups and Message-ID: <20130903152731.GB20159@roeck-us.net> References: <1378003742-18685-1-git-send-email-linux@roeck-us.net> <5224E62F.1050400@roeck-us.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <5224E62F.1050400@roeck-us.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1164 Lines: 27 On Mon, Sep 02, 2013 at 12:25:35PM -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote: > On 08/31/2013 07:48 PM, Guenter Roeck wrote: > >This patch series introduces new hwmon API functions > >hwmon_device_register_with_groups() and devm_hwmon_device_register_with_groups(). > > > >hwmon_device_register_with_groups() lets callers register hwmon devices > >as well as associated sysfs attributes with a single call. This simplifies > >hwmon device registration and avoids potential race conditions seen > >if sysfs attributes are created after the initial hwmon device was > >registered. > > > >devm_hwmon_device_register_with_groups() is the managed version of the same > >function. > > > Jean, any comments on this patch series ? > > If you are ok with it, I would like to push the new API (patches 1 and 7 of the series) > into 3.12, and keep the rest for 3.13. > The commit window opened up, so this will have to wait for 3.13. Guenter -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/