linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/3] arch/mips/txx9/generic: init dynamic bin

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Date:	Fri, 12 Mar 2010 10:34:51 -0800
From:	Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@...il.com>
To:	Wolfram Sang <w.sang@...gutronix.de>
Cc:	kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org,
	Ralf Baechle <ralf@...ux-mips.org>,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
	linux-mips@...ux-mips.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] arch/mips/txx9/generic: init dynamic bin_attribute
 structures

On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 08:03:49AM +0100, Wolfram Sang wrote:
> Commit 6992f5334995af474c2b58d010d08bc597f0f2fe introduced this requirement.
> Found with coccinelle, but fixed manually. Compile tested on X86 where
> possible.
> 

Regarding all 3 - it looks like these dynamically alocated attributes
could be converted to statically allocated ones. I'd recommend doing
that instead (in fact, I posted patch for the firmware_class couple days
ago).

> Signed-off-by: Wolfram Sang <w.sang@...gutronix.de>
> Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@...ux-mips.org>
> Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@...ssion.com>
> ---
>  arch/mips/txx9/generic/setup.c |    1 +
>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/mips/txx9/generic/setup.c b/arch/mips/txx9/generic/setup.c
> index 7174d83..95184a0 100644
> --- a/arch/mips/txx9/generic/setup.c
> +++ b/arch/mips/txx9/generic/setup.c
> @@ -956,6 +956,7 @@ void __init txx9_sramc_init(struct resource *r)
>  	if (!dev->base)
>  		goto exit;
>  	dev->dev.cls = &txx9_sramc_sysdev_class;
> +	sysfs_bin_attr_init(&dev->bindata_attr);
>  	dev->bindata_attr.attr.name = "bindata";
>  	dev->bindata_attr.attr.mode = S_IRUSR | S_IWUSR;
>  	dev->bindata_attr.read = txx9_sram_read;

-- 
Dmitry
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