@@ -76,7 +76,7 @@ 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 cannot be NULL with non-NULL chip info. Its
+The parent device parameter as well as the chip parameter must not be NULL. Its
parameters are described in more detail below.
devm_hwmon_device_register_with_info is similar to
@@ -886,11 +886,12 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(hwmon_device_register_with_groups);
/**
* hwmon_device_register_with_info - register w/ hwmon
- * @dev: the parent device
- * @name: hwmon name attribute
- * @drvdata: driver data to attach to created device
- * @chip: pointer to hwmon chip information
+ * @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)
* @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.
@@ -903,13 +904,10 @@ hwmon_device_register_with_info(struct device *dev, const char *name,
const struct hwmon_chip_info *chip,
const struct attribute_group **extra_groups)
{
- if (!name)
- return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL);
-
- if (chip && (!chip->ops || !chip->ops->is_visible || !chip->info))
+ if (!dev || !name || !chip)
return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL);
- if (chip && !dev)
+ if (!chip->ops || !chip->ops->is_visible || !chip->info)
return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL);
return __hwmon_device_register(dev, name, drvdata, chip, extra_groups);
Various attempts were made recently to "convert" the old hwmon_device_register() API to devm_hwmon_device_register_with_info() by just changing the function name without actually converting the driver. Prevent this from happening by making the 'chip' parameter of devm_hwmon_device_register_with_info() mandatory. Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net> --- Documentation/hwmon/hwmon-kernel-api.rst | 2 +- drivers/hwmon/hwmon.c | 16 +++++++--------- 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)