Re: [PATCH 4.19 v1 1/2] hwmon: Introduce hwmon_device_register_for_thermal

[Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Wed, Jun 29, 2022 at 07:31:10PM -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> On 6/29/22 16:18, William McVicker wrote:
> > On 06/29/2022, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> > > On 6/29/22 15:58, Will McVicker wrote:
> > > > From: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
> > > > 
> > > > [ upstream commit e5d21072054fbadf41cd56062a3a14e447e8c22b ]
> > > > 
> > > > The thermal subsystem registers a hwmon driver without providing
> > > > chip or sysfs group information. This is for legacy reasons and
> > > > would be difficult to change. At the same time, we want to enforce
> > > > that chip information is provided when registering a hwmon device
> > > > using hwmon_device_register_with_info(). To enable this, introduce
> > > > a special API for use only by the thermal subsystem.
> > > > 
> > > > Acked-by: Rafael J . Wysocki <rafael@kernel.org>
> > > > Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
> > > 
> > > NACK. The patch introducing the problem needs to be reverted.
> > 
> > I'm fine with that as well. I've already verified that fixes the issue. I'll go
> > ahead and send the revert.
> > 
> 
> My understanding is that it is already queued up.

Yes it is, sorry for the delay, will try to push out -rc releases later
today...

greg k-h