Add an item to the checklist when submitting a new hwmon driver: only
some I2C addresses can be probed, others should not for safety
reasons.
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <jdelvare@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Ever since commit 45f035ab9b ("CONFIG_HOTPLUG should be always on"),
it has been basically impossible to build a kernel with CONFIG_HOTPLUG
turned off. Remove all the remaining references to it.
Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Doug Thompson <dougthompson@xmission.com>
Cc: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com>
Cc: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Acked-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Hans Verkuil <hans.verkuil@cisco.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
This config item has not carried much meaning for a while now and is
almost always enabled by default. As agreed during the Linux kernel
summit, remove it.
CC: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
CC: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
CC: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
devres functions are the preferred means to allocate resources in hwmon drivers.
Document it.
Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Acked-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
When writing hardware monitoring drivers, there are some common pitfalls which
keep coming up in code reviews. This patch provides a document describing all
those pitfalls and how to avoid them.
Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <guenter.roeck@ericsson.com>
Acked-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Guenter Roeck