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While invalid name attributes are really not desirable and do mess up libsensors, enforcing valid names has the detrimental effect of driving users away from using the new hardware monitoring API, especially those registering name attributes violating the ABI restrictions. Another undesirable side effect is that this violation and the resulting error may only be discovered some time after a conversion to the new API, which in turn may trigger a revert of that conversion. To solve the problem, relax validation and only issue a warning instead of returning an error if a name attribute violating the ABI is provided. This lets callers continue to provide invalid name attributes while notifying them about it. Many thanks are due to Dmitry Torokhov for the idea. Reviewed-by: Jean Delvare <jdelvare@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Linux kernel ============ This file was moved to Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst Please notice that there are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or ``make pdfdocs``. There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory, several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation. See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file. Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.