linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 0/5] Introduce a new helper marco DEFINE_SHOW_STORE_ATTRIBUTE at seq

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Date:   Tue, 3 Nov 2020 09:27:21 +0100
From:   Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     luojiaxing <luojiaxing@...wei.com>
Cc:     akpm@...ux-foundation.org, viro@...iv.linux.org.uk,
        andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        martin.petersen@...cle.com, john.garry@...wei.com,
        himanshu.madhani@...ium.com, felipe.balbi@...ux.intel.com,
        uma.shankar@...el.com, anshuman.gupta@...el.com,
        animesh.manna@...el.com, linux-usb@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org, linuxarm@...wei.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/5] Introduce a new helper marco
 DEFINE_SHOW_STORE_ATTRIBUTE at seq_file.c

On Tue, Nov 03, 2020 at 04:19:09PM +0800, luojiaxing wrote:
> Hi
> 
> On 2020/10/30 16:44, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Fri, Oct 30, 2020 at 04:31:57PM +0800, Luo Jiaxing wrote:
> > > We already own DEFINE_SHOW_ATTRIBUTE() helper macro for defining attribute
> > > for read-only file, but we found many of drivers also want a helper marco for
> > > read-write file too.
> > > 
> > > So we try to add this macro to help decrease code duplication.
> > > 
> > > Luo Jiaxing (5):
> > >    seq_file: Introduce DEFINE_SHOW_STORE_ATTRIBUTE() helper macro
> > >    scsi: hisi_sas: Introduce DEFINE_SHOW_STORE_ATTRIBUTE for debugfs
> > >    scsi: qla2xxx: Introduce DEFINE_SHOW_STORE_ATTRIBUTE for debugfs
> > >    usb: dwc3: debugfs: Introduce DEFINE_SHOW_STORE_ATTRIBUTE
> > >    drm/i915/display: Introduce DEFINE_SHOW_STORE_ATTRIBUTE for debugfs
> > What changed from v1?
> 
> 
> Sorry, I should add a commit for the change.
> 
> 
> In v1, Andy pointed out that the old name of DEFINE_STORE_ATTRIBUTE was
> easily misunderstood as a write-only file rather than a read-write file.
> 
> Therefore, it is changed to DEFINE_SHOW_STORE_ATTRIBUTE according to his
> suggestion.

All of that needs to go in the patch, below the --- line, or in the
00/XX email here, like is documented.

Please fix that up and resend a v3 if you wish for people to look at
this series and know what is going on.

thanks,

greg k-h