[RFC PATCH 2.6.12-rc3] dynamic driver sysfs callbacks and RFC on

[dtor_core@ameritech.net (Dmitry Torokhov)]

Hi,

On Monday 25 April 2005 00:36, Yani Ioannou wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I'm sending this driver sysfs callback patch to the lm-sensors list to
> get more of the sensor driver maintainer's comments on the patch
> (specifically the type to be associated with each sysfs entry) before
> submitting to LKML. Jean and Greg have already given me invaluable
> feedback and are supportive of the general idea of the patch (the
> problem of which is epitomized by the kludge the 2.6 bmcsensors driver
> is at the moment - see previous discussions in the list archive).
> 
> Included is a patch against drivers/base/core.c and
> include/linux/driver.h that adds a void * to the device attribute
> struct and passes it back to the two sysfs callbacks show/store.

If void is added directly to the attribute structure that means that same
attribute can not be shared between several instances of the same device
-> unexpected. So far all attributes could be statically created.

-- 
Dmitry