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-rw-r--r--Documentation/hwmon/hwmon-kernel-api.txt3
-rw-r--r--drivers/hwmon/hwmon.c3
2 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/hwmon/hwmon-kernel-api.txt b/Documentation/hwmon/hwmon-kernel-api.txt
index 53a8066..eb7a78a 100644
--- a/Documentation/hwmon/hwmon-kernel-api.txt
+++ b/Documentation/hwmon/hwmon-kernel-api.txt
@@ -71,7 +71,8 @@ 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.
-Its parameters are described in more detail below.
+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
hwmon_device_register_with_info. However, it is device managed, meaning the
diff --git a/drivers/hwmon/hwmon.c b/drivers/hwmon/hwmon.c
index 32083e4..e88c019 100644
--- a/drivers/hwmon/hwmon.c
+++ b/drivers/hwmon/hwmon.c
@@ -698,6 +698,9 @@ hwmon_device_register_with_info(struct device *dev, const char *name,
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);
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(hwmon_device_register_with_info);
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