Re: hwmon: (w83781d) Unused attribute group w83781d_group_other

From: Guenter Roeck
Date: Sat May 15 2021 - 09:48:31 EST


On 5/15/21 6:29 AM, Evgeny Novikov wrote:
Driver drivers/hwmon/w83781d.ko declares and removes attribute group
w83781d_group_other, but it does not create it ever. Is it better to remove
it completely or to do something else?

Do nothing. The group is only used to remove the attributes.
The attributes are created one by one, not using the group.
This is WAI.

Oh, there _is_ something you can do: Fix the Linux Driver Verification
project scripts to no longer result in those false positives.

Guenter