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[6/7] hwmon: (core) Explain why at least two attribute groups are allocated

Message ID 1479663388-2000-6-git-send-email-linux@roeck-us.net (mailing list archive)
State Accepted
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Guenter Roeck Nov. 20, 2016, 5:36 p.m. UTC
A list of sysfs attribute groups is NULL-terminated, so we always need
to allocate data for at least two groups (the dynamically generated group
plus the NULL pointer). Add a comment to explain the situation.

Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
---
 drivers/hwmon/hwmon.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
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diff --git a/drivers/hwmon/hwmon.c b/drivers/hwmon/hwmon.c
index a0b5becf91fa..8dc0466a9307 100644
--- a/drivers/hwmon/hwmon.c
+++ b/drivers/hwmon/hwmon.c
@@ -561,7 +561,7 @@  __hwmon_device_register(struct device *dev, const char *name, void *drvdata,
 
 	if (chip) {
 		struct attribute **attrs;
-		int ngroups = 2;
+		int ngroups = 2; /* terminating NULL plus &hwdev->groups */
 
 		if (groups)
 			for (i = 0; groups[i]; i++)