[lm-sensors] [PATCH 1/4] libsensors: Detect OpenFirmware hwmon devices

[Jean Delvare]

On Thu, 10 Apr 2008 16:34:41 -0700, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 02, 2008 at 02:03:29PM +0200, Jean Delvare wrote:
> 
> > We can of course apply this but I am wondering if this is needed in the
> > long run... I seem to recall a discussion about of_platform being soon
> > deprecated and Open Firmware-based devices would just use platform. Ah,
> > here it is:
> > 
> > http://lists.lm-sensors.org/pipermail/i2c/2007-December/002548.html
> 
> I think it would be useful to pick up of_platform devices even if
> they get reclassified as regular platform devices because a new
> libsensors may some day encounter an old kernel.
> 
> I, err, committed it to test commit priviledges.  Oops.  I will
> pull it out if there exist really strong objections to this code.
> 
> (2.6.25-rc8 still has of_platform in it...)

It's all OK with me, no worry.

-- 
Jean Delvare