On Thu, 15 Mar 2007, Kay Sievers wrote: > On 3/1/07, Robert P. J. Day <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Remove the macro "decl_subsys_name" which can be used to declare a > > sysfs subsystem, along with the single invocation of it in the source > > tree, since there appears to be little value in creating a subsystem > > whose subsystem name differs from its structure name. Everyone else > > just uses "decl_subsys". > > Sometimes you want shorter variable names as the created objects in > sysfs, because the 80 columns limit of the kernel source makes long > variable names pretty inconvenient. > And all these decl_* macros, obviously can't create any names that > contain '-', which is pretty annoying. There is also a user in the > experimental patches in Greg's tree. Please leave it there for now.
no problem but that patch *was* based on a suggestion by greg in the first place. i'm guessing he just forgot. :-) rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA http://fsdev.net/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page ======================================================================== - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
