On Thu, 2007-03-15 at 08:52 -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > 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. :-)
A cleanup of the driver-core source is long overdue, that's why we like everything that goes away here, that isn't really needed. :) In the end, we should probably just get rid of the whole "struct subsystem". We can move the lock to the kset and ditch the whole weird idea of a "subsystem", which is nothing but a collection of ksets, which the object model can handle without "struct subsystem" just fine. Thanks, Kay - 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/
