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Revert "hwmon: Make chip parameter for with_info API mandatory" 

This reverts commit 1ec0bc72f5 which is
commit ddaefa209c upstream.  It should not
have been applied to the stable trees.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220622154454.GA1864037@roeck-us.net
Reported-by: Julian Haller <julian.haller@philips.com>
Reported-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Cc: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
This commit is contained in:
Greg Kroah-Hartman 2022-06-23 18:19:35 +02:00
parent 9b40c2b723
commit a2f55994ab
2 changed files with 10 additions and 8 deletions
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Documentation/hwmon/hwmon-kernel-api.txt
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@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ hwmon_device_register_with_info is the most comprehensive and preferred means
to register a hardware monitoring device. It creates the standard sysfs
attributes in the hardware monitoring core, letting the driver focus on reading
from and writing to the chip instead of having to bother with sysfs attributes.
The parent device parameter as well as the chip parameter must not be NULL. Its
The parent device parameter cannot be NULL with non-NULL chip info. Its
parameters are described in more detail below.
devm_hwmon_device_register_with_info is similar to

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drivers/hwmon/hwmon.c
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@ -695,12 +695,11 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(hwmon_device_register_with_groups);
/**
* hwmon_device_register_with_info - register w/ hwmon
* @dev: the parent device (mandatory)
* @name: hwmon name attribute (mandatory)
* @drvdata: driver data to attach to created device (optional)
* @chip: pointer to hwmon chip information (mandatory)
* @dev: the parent device
* @name: hwmon name attribute
* @drvdata: driver data to attach to created device
* @chip: pointer to hwmon chip information
* @extra_groups: pointer to list of additional non-standard attribute groups
* (optional)
*
* hwmon_device_unregister() must be called when the device is no
* longer needed.
@ -713,10 +712,13 @@ hwmon_device_register_with_info(struct device *dev, const char *name,
const struct hwmon_chip_info *chip,
const struct attribute_group **extra_groups)
{
if (!dev || !name || !chip)
if (!name)
return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL);
if (!chip->ops || !chip->ops->is_visible || !chip->info)
if (chip && (!chip->ops || !chip->ops->is_visible || !chip->info))
return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL);
if (chip && !dev)
return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL);
return __hwmon_device_register(dev, name, drvdata, chip, extra_groups);