[PATCH] hwmon class driver registration with a device number

[Himanshu Chauhan]

Hi,

> I can not comment on the merits of your patch. Unless I am missing
> something, which may well be since I only spent a couple of minutes on
> it, other device classes don't seem to provide a similar API, so I don't
> know if or why it would make sense for hwmon. Maybe a driver which wants
> to register a character device interface should do so independently of
> hwmon.
> 

The idea here is to sit in the same class directory as of hwmon. Devices
registered with this interface will have "dev" under, for example,
/sys/class/hwmon/hwmon0/dev. To do the same inside the driver will be
a bit more involved than a call.

In my opinion other classes should also have similar interfaces.

> On the technical side, EXPORT_SYMBOL is missing.
> 
I will take care of that.

Regards
Himanshu