Re: [PATCH] ACPI: thinkpad-acpi: use a separate platform device for hwmon and name it (v2)

[Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>]

On Tuesday 25 September 2007 05:38, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> Use a separate platform device and driver ("thinkpad_hwmon") to attach
> hwmon attributes and class, and add a name attribute of "thinkpad" to
> it, which defines the hwmon device name for libsensors4.
> 
> This makes thinkpad-acpi compatible with libsensors4 from lm-sensors, and
> the platform driver and device split will make it much easier to separate
> hwmon functionality into its own module later on.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br>
> Cc: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
> ---
>  Documentation/thinkpad-acpi.txt |   25 +++++++++---
>  drivers/misc/thinkpad_acpi.c    |   79 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------
>  drivers/misc/thinkpad_acpi.h    |    6 ++-
>  3 files changed, 91 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-)

previous 8/9 in the test tree is replaced by this one.

thanks,
-Len