Re: [lm-sensors] [PATCH] hwmon: (max6650) Rename the device ids tocontain the hwmon suffix

[Laszlo Papp]

On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 4:38 PM, Jean Delvare <jdelvare@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> Additionally, dashes are explicitly forbidden in hwmon
> device names.

Also, where is that documented?

I do not think you can make such a decision, and you will realize that
once you begin to think a bit out of the box and look around. See how
other children are managed for MFD devices. "driver-subsystem" is a
pretty common a schema. I do not really see any point in forbidding
dashes currently. Please do elaborate about the reasons, and the fact
that why it is undocuemented.

Also, I currently do not understand what you are suggesting: just
leave this technically unreasonable situation as is for compatibility
reasons? There is no better support in place for appending further
alternative names?

In any case, at the very least, I hope the lesson is learnt for the
future from this past mistake. If a chip is MFD'ish, a subdevice
driver should not ever be added with such an id.
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