On Saturday 27 June 2015 13:34:30 Gabriele Mazzotta wrote:
> Hi Pali,
> 
> I've just noticed an issue with this patch. See the comment here
> below.
> 
> Gabriele
> 
> On Wednesday 29 April 2015 13:41:26 Pali Rohár wrote:
> > @@ -750,8 +777,8 @@ static int __init i8k_init_hwmon(void)
> > 
> >     if (err >= 0)
> >     
> >             i8k_hwmon_flags |= I8K_HWMON_HAVE_FAN2;
> > 
> > -   i8k_hwmon_dev = hwmon_device_register_with_groups(NULL, "i8k",
> > NULL, -                                                       i8k_groups);
> > +   i8k_hwmon_dev = hwmon_device_register_with_groups(NULL,
> > "dell-smm", +                                                         NULL, 
> > i8k_groups);
> 
> dell-smm is not a valid name, see hwmon_device_register_with_groups()
> for more info (dash not allowed). Because of this, the driver can't
> be loaded.
> 

How it is possible? It worked fine on my tested dell machine...

And now I see, I probably tested this change with older kernel version 
(ubuntu/3.13) which did not have that check for invalid characters...

Renaming dell-smm to dell_smm should fix this problem, right?

-- 
Pali Rohár
pali.ro...@gmail.com

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