linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v5 0/7] sysfs: prepare the constification of struct attribute

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Message-ID: <2025112614-islamist-emit-2a4b@gregkh>
Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2025 15:17:24 +0100
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To: Thomas Weißschuh <linux@...ssschuh.net>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@...nel.org>,
	Danilo Krummrich <dakr@...nel.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 0/7] sysfs: prepare the constification of struct
 attribute

On Wed, Oct 29, 2025 at 09:12:09AM +0100, Thomas Weißschuh wrote:
> The migration of 'struct attribute' and its related structures and
> macros are more complicated than those for 'struct bin_attribute'.
> Mostly because they are all shared by various custom attribute types.
> Introduce some initial utilities to support the migration.
> These are enough to migrate some specialized attributes atomically or
> those which don't use 'struct attribute' in their callbacks stepwise.
> 
> The big outstanding problems are 'struct device_attribute' and
> 'struct kobj_attribute'. These are used everywhere and I'm not yet sure
> about a migration plan.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh <linux@...ssschuh.net>
> ---

Sorry for the delay, this looks good, now queued up.

greg k-h