Re: [PATCH 3/3] hwmon: (oxp-sensors) Refactor init() and remove probe()

From: Joaquin Aramendia
Date: Mon Jul 17 2023 - 12:40:45 EST


Hello Guenter and Greg:

> > Again, as in patch 2/3, you forgot a signed-off-by line.

Will resubmit with proper Sign-off

> > You are creating a fake platform device out of no where here, which is
> > tied to nothing, which isn't ok. Keep it in the proper device tree and
> > have it be passed to you by the driver core in the probe() function.
> >
>
> This is a system with dmi data, so it won't support devicetree. Other
> than that, you are correct, this patch is definitely not a good idea
> and needs to be dropped.
>
> Thanks,
> Guenter
>
> > I think you will see that this changed where in /sys/devices/ your
> > device is now, right?

The attribute is created in the same place as before this patch. And
works the same as before this patch.

I can drop this patch and only resubmit 1 and 2. Thanks for the review
to both of you.

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Joaquín I. Aramendía