From: Khaled Elnaggar <khaledelnaggarlinux@gmail.com>
To: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: liyihang9@huawei.com, James.Bottomley@hansenpartnership.com,
martin.petersen@oracle.com, linux-kernel-mentees@lists.linux.dev,
shuah@kernel.org, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] scsi: hisi_sas: use sysfs_emit() in v3 hw show() functions
Date: Sat, 12 Jul 2025 18:17:02 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <806f427f-2d6d-442a-b207-09cf59af642e@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2025071244-widely-strangely-b24c@gregkh>
On 12/07/2025 5:43 pm, Greg KH wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 12, 2025 at 05:28:03PM +0300, Khaled Elnaggar wrote:
>> Replace scnprintf() with sysfs_emit() in several sysfs show()
>> callbacks in hisi_sas_v3_hw.c. This is recommended in
>> Documentation/filesystems/sysfs.rst for formatting values returned to
>> userspace.
>
> For new users, yes, but what's wrong with these existing calls? They
> still work properly, so why change them?
>
> thanks,
>
> greg k-h
Oh okay, got it. I was under the impression that older scnprintf()
calls should be actively replaced with sysfs_emit(). But no need if
they just work, unless there is a bug or something.
Thanks for the clarification.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-07-12 15:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-07-12 14:28 [PATCH] scsi: hisi_sas: use sysfs_emit() in v3 hw show() functions Khaled Elnaggar
2025-07-12 14:43 ` Greg KH
2025-07-12 15:17 ` Khaled Elnaggar [this message]
2025-07-13 17:58 ` Bart Van Assche
2025-07-14 5:32 ` Greg KH
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