Re: [PATCH v3 2/9] hwmon: (core) New hwmon registration API

Guenter Roeck
2016-08-12T12:40:36Z

On 08/12/2016 01:16 AM, Keerthy wrote:
> On Monday 25 July 2016 09:02 AM, Guenter Roeck wrote:
>> Up to now, each hwmon driver has to implement its own sysfs attributes.
>> This requires a lot of template code, and distracts from the driver's core
>> function to read and write chip registers.
>>
>> To be able to reduce driver complexity, move sensor attribute handling
>> and thermal zone registration into hwmon core. By using the new API,
>> driver code and data size is typically reduced by 20-70%, depending
>> on driver complexity and the number of sysfs attributes supported.
>>
>> With this patch, the new API only supports thermal sensors. Support for
>> other sensor types will be added with subsequent patches.
>>
> Hi Guenter,
>
> Seems like this patch introduces a cycling dependency between
> thermal_sys and hwmon:
>
> DEPMOD 4.8.0-rc1-next-20160811-00001-g2f84cf7854e7
> depmod: ERROR: Found 2 modules in dependency cycles!
> depmod: ERROR: Cycle detected: hwmon -> thermal_sys -> hwmon
>
> As reported by R, Vignesh <vigneshr@ti.com>.
>

Hmm ... interesting. Thanks for letting me know. I'll have to think about that.

Guenter