linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/8] misc: remove boundary checks from bin attr users

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Date:	Fri, 7 Aug 2015 18:10:55 +0200
From:	Wolfram Sang <wsa@...-dreams.de>
To:	Vladimir Zapolskiy <vz@...ia.com>
Cc:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@...e-electrons.com>,
	Jean Delvare <jdelvare@...e.com>,
	Ian Munsie <imunsie@....ibm.com>,
	Michael Neuling <mikey@...ling.org>,
	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>, linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org,
	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-i2c@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/8] misc: remove boundary checks from bin attr users

Vladimir,

On Mon, Jul 27, 2015 at 12:18:22AM +0300, Vladimir Zapolskiy wrote:
> This change removes a number of redundant checks on bin attribute
> client's side, the same checks are done by sysfs_kf_bin_read() or
> sysfs_kf_bin_write() caller from fs/sysfs/file.c.
> 
> Note, drivers/misc/pch_phub.c and drivers/misc/c2port/core.c may be
> updated in a similar way, however this task is not done due to more
> complicated read()/write() callbacks.

Can you resend the patches which touch i2c drivers with me on cc? I'd
like to take care of them.

Thanks,

   Wolfram


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