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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/hwmon/hwmon-kernel-api.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/hwmon/hwmon-kernel-api.txt | 22 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 11 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/hwmon/hwmon-kernel-api.txt b/Documentation/hwmon/hwmon-kernel-api.txt index 633fa90..2505ae6 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. |
