On Saturday 27 June 2015 15:01:34 Pali Rohár wrote:
> On Saturday 27 June 2015 14:55:40 Gabriele Mazzotta wrote:
> > On Saturday 27 June 2015 14:47:16 Pali Rohár wrote:
> > > 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?
> > 
> > Yes, everything works just fine with the underscore.
> 
> Ok, will you send patch for this small fix?

OK, I'll do it shortly.
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