linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] modules: sysfs - export: taint, address, size

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Message-ID: <878vlf6rm5.fsf@rustcorp.com.au>
Date:	Wed, 11 Jan 2012 10:24:26 +1030
From:	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>
To:	Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@...y.org>
Cc:	Jon Masters <jcm@...hat.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Lucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi@...fusion.mobi>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] modules: sysfs - export: taint, address, size

On Tue, 10 Jan 2012 17:47:43 +0100, Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@...y.org> wrote:
> From: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@...y.org>
> Subject: modules: sysfs - export: taint, coresize, initsize
> 
> Recent tools do not want to use /proc to retrieve module information. A few
> values are currently missing from sysfs to replace the information available
> in /proc/modules.
> 
> This adds /sys/module/*/{coresize,initsize,taint} attributes.
> 
> TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE (P) and TAINT_OOT_MODULE (O) flags are both always
> shown now, and do no longer exclude each other, also in /proc/modules.
> 
> Replace the open-coded sysfs attribute initializers with the __ATTR() macro.
> 
> Add the new attributes to Documentation/ABI.
> 
> Cc: Lucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi@...fusion.mobi>
> Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@...y.org>

Thanks, applied.

Cheers,
Rusty.
PS.  You could have split this into four separate patches, like the
     pedants wanted, and got more gititude!
PPS.  I'm so glad you didn't.
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