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From: dtor_core@ameritech.net (Dmitry Torokhov)
Date: Thu, 19 May 2005 06:25:56 +0000
Subject: [RFC PATCH 2.6.12-rc3] dynamic driver sysfs callbacks and RFC on
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Hi Yani,

On Friday 06 May 2005 01:40, Yani Ioannou wrote:
> We would probably want to define another DEVICE_ATTRIBUTE like macro
> or add a void * parameter to the DEVICE_ATTRIBUTE macro. Any opinions
> on which way to go? This might be done for the other *_ATTRIBUTE
> macros too.
> 

No, I don't think so. Again, macros are normally used to initialize
statically allocated attributes, exposing void * pointer does not do
them any good. It can only lead to bugs when driver writer misses the
fact that pointer is shared between all instances of attribute.

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Dmitry