linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/2] soc: qcom: socinfo: Change socinfo variable name and scope

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Date:   Wed, 11 Jan 2023 13:37:30 -0800
From:   Trilok Soni <quic_tsoni@...cinc.com>
To:     Naman Jain <quic_namajain@...cinc.com>,
        Bjorn Andersson <andersson@...nel.org>,
        Andy Gross <agross@...nel.org>,
        Konrad Dybcio <konrad.dybcio@...ainline.org>
CC:     <linux-arm-msm@...r.kernel.org>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        <quic_pkondeti@...cinc.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] soc: qcom: socinfo: Change socinfo variable name and
 scope

On 1/11/2023 12:21 AM, Naman Jain wrote:
> Change socinfo structure variable scope from function to file
> to make it easy to support custom attributes for sysfs. Also,
> change variable name to make it more descriptive.

Did you mean debugfs?

Can you one example of custom attribute in the commit text so that we
understand the motivation better?

> 
> Signed-off-by: Naman Jain <quic_namajain@...cinc.com>
> ---
>   drivers/soc/qcom/socinfo.c | 80 ++++++++++++++++++++------------------
>   1 file changed, 42 insertions(+), 38 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/soc/qcom/socinfo.c b/drivers/soc/qcom/socinfo.c
> index 10efdbcfdf05..251c0fd94962 100644
> --- a/drivers/soc/qcom/socinfo.c
> +++ b/drivers/soc/qcom/socinfo.c
> @@ -175,6 +175,7 @@ struct socinfo {
>   	__le32  npartnamemap_offset;
>   	__le32  nnum_partname_mapping;
>   };
> +static struct socinfo *soc_info;

Is there any better way to do it? Should not asume the just one object
and dynamically allocate it? Let's wait for Bjorn to check as well.

---Trilok Soni