Re: [PATCH] PCI: export MSI mode using attributes, not kobjects

[Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>]

On Fri, Nov 29, 2013 at 10:41:37AM +0100, Veaceslav Falico wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 10:46:52AM -0800, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> >From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
> >
> >The PCI MSI sysfs code is a mess with kobjects for things that don't
> >really need to be kobjects.  This patch creates attributes dynamically
> >for the MSI interrupts instead of using kobjects.
> >
> >Note, this removes a directory from the current MSI interrupt sysfs
> >code:
> >
> >old MSI kobjects:
> >pci_device
> >   └── msi_irqs
> >       └── 40
> >           └── mode
> >
> >new MSI attributes:
> >pci_device
> >   └── msi_irqs
> >       └── 40
> >
> >As there was only one file "mode" with the kobject model, the interrupt
> >number is now a file that returns the "mode" of the interrupt (msi vs.
> >msix).
> >
> >Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
> 
> Works like a charm for me.
> 
> FWIW,
> 
> Reviewed-by: Veaceslav Falico <vfalico@redhat.com>

On Thu, Nov 28, 2013 at 10:14:19PM -0500, Neil Horman wrote:
> ACK, Testing with git-head irqbalance on F19 with this patch and it works fine.
> 
> Thanks!
> Acked-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>

Great, thanks for both of you testing this.

Bjorn, any objection to take this through your tree for 3.14-rc1?

thanks,

gre k-h