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hwmon: Make chip parameter for with_info API mandatory

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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>
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Guenter Roeck
2022-05-11 06:22:51 -07:00
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@@ -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