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On Mon, 2018-07-23 at 11:24 -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> There are much more urgent issues to fix there (such as, for example,
> converting the "offending" drivers to the latest API, which would
> magically cause most of the offenders to disappear).

Perhaps posting a list of desired hwmon changes could help.

Documentation/hwmon/submitting-patches does not seem to specify
what the "latest API" is nor describe what changes would be
required in older drivers.