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hwmon: (pmbus/core) notify on the hwmon device, not the i2c client
authorVincent Jardin <vjardin@free.fr>
Thu, 23 Jul 2026 15:44:56 +0000 (17:44 +0200)
committerGuenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Mon, 27 Jul 2026 18:34:24 +0000 (11:34 -0700)
commita64a7e8a0b012ba81b0eadbd7afc84ab0dbfd70c
tree7d47e5c40a8ed516a2616c9b51f04a3f78632fd3
parentb0e8adb2ccb43009796897ced09f91636685c9d3
hwmon: (pmbus/core) notify on the hwmon device, not the i2c client

pmbus_notify() calls sysfs_notify() and kobject_uevent() on the i2c
client's kobject, but the alarm attributes live on the hwmon class
device registered by pmbus_do_probe(). Notifying the parent i2c device
is a no-op for both poll(POLLPRI) waiters and udev listeners: the named
attribute does not exist on that kobject.

Notify the hwmon device instead, so poll() wakes up and "change"
uevents fire on the inX_alarm/tempX_alarm attributes when SMBALERT#
reports a fault.

Fixes: f469bde9afd1 ("hwmon: (pmbus/core) Notify hwmon events")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v6.4+
Signed-off-by: Vincent Jardin <vjardin@free.fr>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260723-fix_hwmon_notify_v1-v1-1-5a24c528686d@free.fr
Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
drivers/hwmon/pmbus/pmbus_core.c