Re: [PATCH v2 00/10] drivers, provide a way to add sysfs groups easily

[Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Wed, Jul 31, 2019 at 06:10:45AM -0700, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 31, 2019 at 02:43:39PM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > This patch originally started out just as a way for platform drivers to
> > easily add a sysfs group in a race-free way, but thanks to Dmitry's
> > patch, this series now is for all drivers in the kernel (hey, a unified
> > driver model works!!!)
> > 
> > I've only converted a few platform drivers here in this series to show
> > how it works, but other busses can be converted after the first patch
> > goes into the tree.
> > 
> > Here's the original 00 message, for people to get an idea of what is
> > going on here:
> > 
> > If a platform driver wants to add a sysfs group, it has to do so in a
> > racy way, adding it after the driver is bound.  To resolve this issue,
> > have the platform driver core do this for the driver, making the
> > individual drivers logic smaller and simpler, and solving the race at
> > the same time.
> > 
> > All of these patches depend on the first patch.  I'll take the first one
> > through my driver-core tree, and any subsystem maintainer can either ack
> > their individul patch and I will be glad to also merge it, or they can
> > wait until after 5.4-rc1 when the core patch hits Linus's tree and then
> > take it, it's up to them.
> 
> Maybe make an immutable branch off 5.2 with just patch 1/10 so that
> subsystems (and the driver core tree itself) could pull it in at their
> leisure into their "*-next" branches and did not have to wait till 5.4
> or risk merge clashes?

Good idea, I will do that when I apply it after a few days to give
people a chance to review it.

thanks,

greg k-h