linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH V2] sysfs.txt: add note on available attribute macros

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Message-ID: <20190217155319.7686ce91@lwn.net>
Date:   Sun, 17 Feb 2019 15:53:19 -0700
From:   Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>
To:     Nicholas Mc Guire <hofrat@...dl.org>
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        linux-doc@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH V2] sysfs.txt: add note on available attribute macros

On Fri, 15 Feb 2019 08:29:48 +0100
Nicholas Mc Guire <hofrat@...dl.org> wrote:

> The common cases of attributes wrappers should probably be using the
> __ATTR_XXX macros to make code more concise and readable but the current
> sysfs.txt does not point developers to those convenience macros. Further
> there is no note in sysfs.txt currently explaining why trying to set a
> sysfs file to mode 0666 will fail respectively revert to 0664.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Nicholas Mc Guire <hofrat@...dl.org>

I've applied this, thanks.

jon