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Message-ID: <20071105171133.GD12843@suse.de>
Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2007 09:11:33 -0800
From: Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de>
To: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@...y.org>
Cc: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@...ibm.com>,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 34/54] Driver Core: add kobj_attribute handling
On Mon, Nov 05, 2007 at 05:23:32PM +0100, Kay Sievers wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-11-05 at 13:42 +0100, Cornelia Huck wrote:
> > On Fri, 2 Nov 2007 16:59:12 -0700,
> > Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de> wrote:
> >
> > > From: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@...y.org>
> > >
> > > Add kobj_sysfs_ops to replace subsys_sysfs_ops. There is no
> > > need for special kset operations, we want to be able to use
> > > simple attribute operations at any kobject, not only ksets.
> > >
> > > The whole concept of any default sysfs attribute operations
> > > will go away with the upcoming removal of subsys_sysfs_ops.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@...y.org>
> > > Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de>
> > > ---
> > > include/linux/kobject.h | 10 ++++++++++
> > > lib/kobject.c | 29 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> > > 2 files changed, 39 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> >
> > How about adding some simple wrappers around the new kobj_attribute
> > structure? This makes the layering clearer.
>
> > +#define KOBJ_ATTR(_name,_mode,_show,_store) \
> > + struct kobj_attribute kobj_attr_##_name = \
> > + __ATTR(_name,_mode,_show,_store)
>
> That sounds fine.
>
> > +extern int __must_check kobject_create_file(struct kobject *,
> >
> > struct kobj_attribute *);
> > +extern void kobject_remove_file(struct kobject *,struct kobj_attribute *);
>
> That should usually be done by default attributes assigned to the ktype.
> Do you have a good use case, where people need to create such attributes
> individually instead?
The s390 code that was converted to use kobj_attributes :)
These look very useful, I'll go add them to the series unless Kay really
objects.
thanks,
greg k-h
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