linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] base firmware: Fix BUG from sysfs attributes change in commit a2db6842873c8e5a70652f278d469128cb52db70

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Date:	Sun, 14 Mar 2010 11:07:23 -0700 (PDT)
From:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Wolfram Sang <w.sang@...gutronix.de>
cc:	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
	Jiri Kosina <jkosina@...e.cz>,
	Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@...inger.net>,
	WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de>, Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] base firmware: Fix BUG from sysfs attributes change in
 commit a2db6842873c8e5a70652f278d469128cb52db70



On Sun, 14 Mar 2010, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> On Sun, 14 Mar 2010, Wolfram Sang wrote:
>
> > http://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/85212/
> > (which is pretty much the same like the patch originating this thread. I vote
> > very much for dropping those patches and use
> > http://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/84814/ instead!)
> 
> Also, that "firmware_attr_data" thing should probably be marked 'const', 
> no? That should make it more obvious that it's ok to share across multiple 
> different firmware file, I think.

Btw, if it wasn't obvious, this was a comment on that

	http://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/84814/

patch that would replace the one-liner in 85212.

			Linus
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