On Sun, Jul 14, 2013 at 04:05:50PM -0700, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > Hi all, > > Here is the third iteration of the patchset to add better attribute > group support to the driver core and sysfs. > > Others have now tested it, and we got 3 more patches fixing a warning > that was showing up when binary attributes were in a group with no > "normal" attributes, and some more helper macros were added and cleaned > up. > > I've booted this successfully against 3.11-rc1 with no problems (am > sending these from that machine.) > > Ian, I didn't add a DEVICE_PATTR() macro yet, that can come later. I > considered it, but that would also mean a BUS_PATTR() and the like, which I > guess works, but I hate even a _hint_ of "Hungarian" notation, which this > implies. > > Anyone else have a better name for this macro: > #define DEVICE_PATTR(_name) &dev_attr_##_name.attr > that they can think of? It will cut down on the typing done for > attribute lists. > > changes from v3: > - tested by Guenter > - patches from Oliver added > - refreshed on 3.11-rc1 (minor fuzz) > - Ian glanced at them. > > changes from v2: > - actually boots > - 7th patch added properly > - added BUS_ATTR, CLASS_ATTR, and DRIVER_ATTR RW and RO macros > to help with converting code to use attributes properly. > Hi Greg,
thanks a lot for this series of patches, and for pushing it upstream. Do you by any chance have a repository for the cleanup patches depending on this series ? It looks like a good area to get involved with when I am tired/annoyed by my other work, but I would not want to duplicate your work. Thanks, Guenter -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
