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SubjectRe: [PATCH v4 03/11] drivers: base: add cpu_device_create to support per-cpu devices
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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