netdev - Re: simplify configfs attributes

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Date:	Sat, 26 Sep 2015 16:49:06 -0700
From:	"Nicholas A. Bellinger" <nab@...ux-iscsi.org>
To:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
Cc:	Joel Becker <jlbec@...lplan.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Felipe Balbi <balbi@...com>, Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>,
	Pratyush Anand <pratyush.anand@...il.com>,
	target-devel@...r.kernel.org, cluster-devel@...hat.com,
	ocfs2-devel@....oracle.com, linux-usb@...r.kernel.org,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: simplify configfs attributes

On Fri, 2015-09-25 at 06:49 -0700, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> This series consolidates the code to implement configfs attributes
> by providing the ->show and ->store method in common code and using
> container_of in the methods to access the containing structure.
> 
> This reduces source and binary size of configfs consumers a lot.
> 

Looking at the complete series, the subsystem it touches the most is
target-core + fabric driver code, which is not surprising considering
it's the largest consumer of configfs.

That said, it would probably make sense to merge via target-pending.git
and get this series into linux-next ASAP.

--nab









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