Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 19 Sep 2014 15:23:40 -0700 | From | Stephen Boyd <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v4 03/11] drivers: base: add cpu_device_create to support per-cpu devices |
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On 09/03/14 10:00, Sudeep Holla wrote: > From: Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@arm.com> > > This patch adds a new function to create per-cpu devices. > This helps in: > 1. reusing the device infrastructure to create any cpu related > attributes and corresponding sysfs instead of creating and > dealing with raw kobjects directly > 2. retaining the legacy path(/sys/devices/system/cpu/..) to support > existing sysfs ABI > 3. avoiding to create links in the bus directory pointing to the > device as there would be per-cpu instance of these devices with > the same name since dev->bus is not populated to cpu_sysbus on > purpose > > Signed-off-by: Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@arm.com> > Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> > Cc: David Herrmann <dh.herrmann@gmail.com> > Cc: Kay Sievers <kay@vrfy.org> >
Tested-by: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org>
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