linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] drivers/base: Use attribute groups to create sysfs memory files

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Message-ID: <20130521163312.GA27705@kroah.com>
Date:	Tue, 21 May 2013 09:33:12 -0700
From:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:	Nathan Fontenot <nfont@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc:	linux-mm <linux-mm@...ck.org>, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] drivers/base: Use attribute groups to create sysfs
 memory files

On Wed, May 08, 2013 at 11:09:48AM -0500, Nathan Fontenot wrote:
> Update the sysfs memory code to create/delete files at the time of device
> and subsystem registration.
> 
> The current code creates files in the root memory directory explicitly through
> the use of init_* routines. The files for each memory block are created and
> deleted explicitly using the mem_[create|delete]_simple_file macros.
> 
> This patch creates attribute groups for the memory root files and files in
> each memory block directory so that they are created and deleted implicitly
> at subsys and device register and unregister time.
>  
> This did necessitate moving the register_memory() and unregister_memory()
> routines in the file. There are no changes to unregister_memory, the
> register_memory routine is only updated to set the dev.groups field.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Nathan Fontenot <nfont@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
> 
> Please cc me on responses/comments.
> ---
>  drivers/base/memory.c |  163 ++++++++++++++++++++++----------------------------
>  1 file changed, 72 insertions(+), 91 deletions(-)

This doesn't seem to apply to 3.10-rc2, can you refresh it and resend it
so that I can apply it?

thanks,

greg k-h
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