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-rw-r--r--Documentation/hwmon/hwmon-kernel-api.txt22
-rw-r--r--drivers/hwmon/hwmon.c8
-rw-r--r--include/linux/hwmon.h8
3 files changed, 19 insertions, 19 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/hwmon/hwmon-kernel-api.txt b/Documentation/hwmon/hwmon-kernel-api.txt
index 633fa90909eb..2505ae67e2b6 100644
--- a/Documentation/hwmon/hwmon-kernel-api.txt
+++ b/Documentation/hwmon/hwmon-kernel-api.txt
@@ -37,14 +37,14 @@ struct device *
hwmon_device_register_with_info(struct device *dev,
const char *name, void *drvdata,
const struct hwmon_chip_info *info,
- const struct attribute_group **groups);
+ const struct attribute_group **extra_groups);
struct device *
devm_hwmon_device_register_with_info(struct device *dev,
- const char *name,
- void *drvdata,
- const struct hwmon_chip_info *info,
- const struct attribute_group **groups);
+ const char *name,
+ void *drvdata,
+ const struct hwmon_chip_info *info,
+ const struct attribute_group **extra_groups);
void hwmon_device_unregister(struct device *dev);
void devm_hwmon_device_unregister(struct device *dev);
@@ -100,9 +100,9 @@ const char *name Device name
void *drvdata Driver private data
const struct hwmon_chip_info *info
Pointer to chip description.
-const struct attribute_group **groups
- Null-terminated list of additional sysfs attribute
- groups.
+const struct attribute_group **extra_groups
+ Null-terminated list of additional non-standard
+ sysfs attribute groups.
This function returns a pointer to the created hardware monitoring device
on success and a negative error code for failure.
@@ -287,9 +287,9 @@ Driver-provided sysfs attributes
If the hardware monitoring device is registered with
hwmon_device_register_with_info or devm_hwmon_device_register_with_info,
-it is most likely not necessary to provide sysfs attributes. Only non-standard
-sysfs attributes need to be provided when one of those registration functions
-is used.
+it is most likely not necessary to provide sysfs attributes. Only additional
+non-standard sysfs attributes need to be provided when one of those registration
+functions is used.
The header file linux/hwmon-sysfs.h provides a number of useful macros to
declare and use hardware monitoring sysfs attributes.
diff --git a/drivers/hwmon/hwmon.c b/drivers/hwmon/hwmon.c
index 8dc0466a9307..58c328f4508d 100644
--- a/drivers/hwmon/hwmon.c
+++ b/drivers/hwmon/hwmon.c
@@ -659,8 +659,8 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(hwmon_device_register_with_groups);
* @dev: the parent device
* @name: hwmon name attribute
* @drvdata: driver data to attach to created device
- * @info: Pointer to hwmon chip information
- * @groups - pointer to list of driver specific attribute groups
+ * @info: pointer to hwmon chip information
+ * @extra_groups: pointer to list of additional non-standard attribute groups
*
* hwmon_device_unregister() must be called when the device is no
* longer needed.
@@ -671,12 +671,12 @@ struct device *
hwmon_device_register_with_info(struct device *dev, const char *name,
void *drvdata,
const struct hwmon_chip_info *chip,
- const struct attribute_group **groups)
+ const struct attribute_group **extra_groups)
{
if (chip && (!chip->ops || !chip->ops->is_visible || !chip->info))
return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL);
- return __hwmon_device_register(dev, name, drvdata, chip, groups);
+ return __hwmon_device_register(dev, name, drvdata, chip, extra_groups);
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(hwmon_device_register_with_info);
diff --git a/include/linux/hwmon.h b/include/linux/hwmon.h
index 2588e6ee7660..78d59dba563e 100644
--- a/include/linux/hwmon.h
+++ b/include/linux/hwmon.h
@@ -377,12 +377,12 @@ struct device *
hwmon_device_register_with_info(struct device *dev,
const char *name, void *drvdata,
const struct hwmon_chip_info *info,
- const struct attribute_group **groups);
+ const struct attribute_group **extra_groups);
struct device *
devm_hwmon_device_register_with_info(struct device *dev,
- const char *name, void *drvdata,
- const struct hwmon_chip_info *info,
- const struct attribute_group **groups);
+ const char *name, void *drvdata,
+ const struct hwmon_chip_info *info,
+ const struct attribute_group **extra_groups);
void hwmon_device_unregister(struct device *dev);
void devm_hwmon_device_unregister(struct device *dev);