linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v7 2/3] Documentation: add a isolation strategy sysfs node for uacce

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Message-ID: <58cecd16-c992-c6b0-76b1-0ba7f2ac4845@huawei.com>
Date:   Mon, 5 Sep 2022 20:02:53 +0800
From:   "yekai (A)" <yekai13@...wei.com>
To:     Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Eric Biggers <ebiggers@...nel.org>
CC:     <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>, <linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org>,
        <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, <wangzhou1@...ilicon.com>,
        <liulongfang@...wei.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 2/3] Documentation: add a isolation strategy sysfs node
 for uacce



On 2022/9/2 2:09, Greg KH wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 01, 2022 at 10:00:40AM -0700, Eric Biggers wrote:
>> On Thu, Sep 01, 2022 at 05:04:08PM +0200, Greg KH wrote:
>>> On Sat, Aug 06, 2022 at 10:29:42AM +0800, Kai Ye wrote:
>>>> Update documentation describing sysfs node that could help to
>>>> configure isolation strategy for users in the user space. And
>>>> describing sysfs node that could read the device isolated state.
>>>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Kai Ye <yekai13@...wei.com>
>>>> ---
>>>>  Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-driver-uacce | 26 ++++++++++++++++++++
>>>>  1 file changed, 26 insertions(+)
>>>>
>>>> diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-driver-uacce b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-driver-uacce
>>>> index 08f2591138af..e09fd160d3fa 100644
>>>> --- a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-driver-uacce
>>>> +++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-driver-uacce
>>>> @@ -19,6 +19,32 @@ Contact:        linux-accelerators@...ts.ozlabs.org
>>>>  Description:    Available instances left of the device
>>>>                  Return -ENODEV if uacce_ops get_available_instances is not provided
>>>>  
>>>> +What:           /sys/class/uacce/<dev_name>/isolate_strategy
>>>> +Date:           Jul 2022
>>> July was a while ago, you sent this patch in August :(
>>>
>> Does the date in the sysfs documentation files serve any purpose besides making
>> people have to update their patchsets every month?
>>
>> The kernel version number would be more useful to readers of the documentation,
>> and it wouldn't have to be updated quite as often.
> True, I have seen people use that instead, or no date at all, I don't
> require it.  But if you do put the field in there, it should at least be
> correct :)
>
> thanks,
>
> greg k-h
> .
>
I have fixed the date in version v8

thanks
Kai