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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/hwmon/hwmon-kernel-api.rst')
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1 files changed, 2 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/hwmon/hwmon-kernel-api.rst b/Documentation/hwmon/hwmon-kernel-api.rst index 6cacf7daf25c..e47fc757e63e 100644 --- a/Documentation/hwmon/hwmon-kernel-api.rst +++ b/Documentation/hwmon/hwmon-kernel-api.rst @@ -38,8 +38,6 @@ register/unregister functions:: void hwmon_device_unregister(struct device *dev); - void devm_hwmon_device_unregister(struct device *dev); - char *hwmon_sanitize_name(const char *name); char *devm_hwmon_sanitize_name(struct device *dev, const char *name); @@ -64,14 +62,10 @@ monitoring device structure. This function must be called from the driver remove function if the hardware monitoring device was registered with hwmon_device_register_with_info. -devm_hwmon_device_unregister does not normally have to be called. It is only -needed for error handling, and only needed if the driver probe fails after -the call to devm_hwmon_device_register_with_info and if the automatic (device -managed) removal would be too late. - All supported hwmon device registration functions only accept valid device names. Device names including invalid characters (whitespace, '*', or '-') -will be rejected. The 'name' parameter is mandatory. +will be rejected. If NULL is passed as name parameter, the hardware monitoring +device name will be derived from the parent device name. If the driver doesn't use a static device name (for example it uses dev_name()), and therefore cannot make sure the name only contains valid |