linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 10/16] powerpc: vio: use dev_groups and not dev_attrs for bus

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Date:   Wed, 07 Jun 2017 09:04:41 +1000
From:   Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>
To:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>,
        Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>,
        Vineet Gupta <vgupta@...opsys.com>,
        Bart Van Assche <bart.vanassche@...disk.com>,
        Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@....com>,
        Joerg Roedel <jroedel@...e.de>,
        Johan Hovold <johan@...nel.org>,
        Alexey Kardashevskiy <aik@...abs.ru>,
        Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk@...nel.org>,
        linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 10/16] powerpc: vio: use dev_groups and not dev_attrs
 for bus_type

On Tue, 2017-06-06 at 21:30 +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> >   
> >   static struct device_attribute vio_dev_attrs[] = {
> >        __ATTR_RO(name),
> > @@ -1573,6 +1576,13 @@ static struct device_attribute vio_dev_attrs[] = {
> >        __ATTR_RO(modalias),
> >        __ATTR_NULL
> >   };
> > +static struct attribute *vio_dev_attrs[] = {
> 
> Hm, this feels wrong, odd that 0-day passed it.  I should be deleting
> the above vio_dev_attrs field as well.  Is powerpc really a dead
> platform?  :)

Haha, not yet no, and the above is actually still quite actively
in use as it's part of our hypervisor virtual IO infrastructure.

Cheers,
Ben.