On Thu, Sep 24, 2020 at 2:45 PM Bartosz Golaszewski <b...@bgdev.pl> wrote: > > From: Bartosz Golaszewski <bgolaszew...@baylibre.com> > > Over at the GPIO sub-system we have a testing module (gpio-mockup) which > uses module params to instantiate simulated GPIO chips and debugfs to > control them. We want to switch to a more stable interface using configfs > to instantiate chips and sysfs to control them. > > For that we need the feature that's well defined in the docs but currently > unimplemented - committable items. I started working on this but it won't > be ready for this release cycle. > > In the meantime I also refactored the configfs samples a bit as I'll be > adding sample code for committable items. I thought that it won't hurt > to send the refactoring patches now for v5.10 so here it is. No logical > changes really, mostly just code quality and removing usage of deprecated > functions. > > Bartosz Golaszewski (12): > MAINTAINERS: add the sample directory to the configfs entry > samples: configfs: order includes alphabetically > samples: configfs: remove redundant newlines > samples: configfs: drop unnecessary ternary operators > samples: configfs: improve alignment of broken lines > samples: configfs: fix alignment in item struct > samples: configfs: replace simple_strtoul() with kstrtoint() > samples: configfs: don't reinitialize variables which are already > zeroed > samples: configfs: prefer sizeof(*var) to sizeof(struct var_type) > samples: configfs: consolidate local variables of the same type > samples: configfs: don't use spaces before tabs > samples: configfs: prefer pr_err() over bare printk(KERN_ERR > > MAINTAINERS | 1 + > samples/configfs/configfs_sample.c | 78 +++++++++++------------------- > 2 files changed, 29 insertions(+), 50 deletions(-) > > -- > 2.17.1 >
Hi Joel, Christoph, Any comments on this? Can this still go into v5.10? Bartosz
