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SubjectRe: [PATCH v3 01/10] Driver core and sysfs changes for attribute groups
On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 04:54:17PM -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 14, 2013 at 04:05:50PM -0700, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Here is the third iteration of the patchset to add better attribute
> > group support to the driver core and sysfs.
> >
> > Others have now tested it, and we got 3 more patches fixing a warning
> > that was showing up when binary attributes were in a group with no
> > "normal" attributes, and some more helper macros were added and cleaned
> > up.
> >
> > I've booted this successfully against 3.11-rc1 with no problems (am
> > sending these from that machine.)
> >
> > Ian, I didn't add a DEVICE_PATTR() macro yet, that can come later. I
> > considered it, but that would also mean a BUS_PATTR() and the like, which I
> > guess works, but I hate even a _hint_ of "Hungarian" notation, which this
> > implies.
> >
> > Anyone else have a better name for this macro:
> > #define DEVICE_PATTR(_name) &dev_attr_##_name.attr
> > that they can think of? It will cut down on the typing done for
> > attribute lists.
> >
> > changes from v3:
> > - tested by Guenter
> > - patches from Oliver added
> > - refreshed on 3.11-rc1 (minor fuzz)
> > - Ian glanced at them.
> >
> > changes from v2:
> > - actually boots
> > - 7th patch added properly
> > - added BUS_ATTR, CLASS_ATTR, and DRIVER_ATTR RW and RO macros
> > to help with converting code to use attributes properly.
> >
> Hi Greg,
>
> thanks a lot for this series of patches, and for pushing it upstream.
>
> Do you by any chance have a repository for the cleanup patches depending on this
> series ? It looks like a good area to get involved with when I am tired/annoyed
> by my other work, but I would not want to duplicate your work.

Give me a week or so to get them out, I have 1500+ "normal" patches to
wade through, and 150+ stable patches to deal with first.

But, if you want to look, I do keep my patches in a quilt series on
git.kernel.org in my patches.git repo, feel free to grab those to play
with.

thanks,

greg k-h


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