Re: [PATCH v3 2/2] hwmon: Allow to compile dell-smm-hwmon driver without /proc/i8k

From: Pali RohÃr
Date: Sat Jun 27 2015 - 08:47:43 EST


On Saturday 27 June 2015 13:34:30 Gabriele Mazzotta wrote:
> Hi Pali,
>
> I've just noticed an issue with this patch. See the comment here
> below.
>
> Gabriele
>
> On Wednesday 29 April 2015 13:41:26 Pali RohÃr wrote:
> > @@ -750,8 +777,8 @@ static int __init i8k_init_hwmon(void)
> >
> > if (err >= 0)
> >
> > i8k_hwmon_flags |= I8K_HWMON_HAVE_FAN2;
> >
> > - i8k_hwmon_dev = hwmon_device_register_with_groups(NULL, "i8k",
> > NULL, - i8k_groups);
> > + i8k_hwmon_dev = hwmon_device_register_with_groups(NULL,
> > "dell-smm", + NULL, i8k_groups);
>
> dell-smm is not a valid name, see hwmon_device_register_with_groups()
> for more info (dash not allowed). Because of this, the driver can't
> be loaded.
>

How it is possible? It worked fine on my tested dell machine...

And now I see, I probably tested this change with older kernel version
(ubuntu/3.13) which did not have that check for invalid characters...

Renaming dell-smm to dell_smm should fix this problem, right?

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Pali RohÃr
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