Re: [PATCH 1/1] drivers/misc: Add Intel System ID driver

From: Arnd Bergmann
Date: Wed Feb 15 2017 - 14:54:10 EST


On Wed, Feb 15, 2017 at 6:17 PM, Greg KH <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 15, 2017 at 07:09:41PM +0800, thloh wrote:
>> From: "Loh, Tien Hock" <tien.hock.loh@xxxxxxxxx>
>>
>> This patch is to add Altera System ID driver.
>> User can obtain the system ID and timestamp of the system by
>> reading the sysfs entry.
>>
>> Usage:
>> cat /sys/bus/platform/devices/[addr].sysid/sysid/id
>> cat /sys/bus/platform/devices/[addr].sysid/sysid/timestamp
>
> If you add new sysfs attributes, you need to also add a
> Documentation/ABI/ description as well.

Maybe we could pretend that this is for a SoC and use the standard soc_device
attributes as well as moving the driver into drivers/soc/?

Arnd