From: Cody P Schafer <cody@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Nathan Fontenot <nfont@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
linux-mm <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH updated] drivers/base: Use attribute groups to create sysfs memory files
Date: Wed, 29 May 2013 14:27:40 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <51A672CC.9020403@linux.vnet.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <51A58F4D.3020804@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
On 05/28/2013 10:17 PM, Nathan Fontenot wrote:
> Update the sysfs memory code to create/delete files at the time of device
> and subsystem registration.
>
> The current code creates files in the root memory directory explicitly
> through
> the use of init_* routines. The files for each memory block are created and
> deleted explicitly using the mem_[create|delete]_simple_file macros.
>
> This patch creates attribute groups for the memory root files and files in
> each memory block directory so that they are created and deleted implicitly
> at subsys and device register and unregister time.
>
> This did necessitate moving the register_memory() routine and update
> it to set the dev.groups field.
>
> Signed-off-by: Nathan Fontenot <nfont@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
>
> Updated to apply cleanly to rc2.
>
> Please cc me on responses/comments.
> ---
> drivers/base/memory.c | 143
> +++++++++++++++++++++-----------------------------
> 1 file changed, 62 insertions(+), 81 deletions(-)
>
> Index: linux/drivers/base/memory.c
> ===================================================================
> --- linux.orig/drivers/base/memory.c 2013-05-28 22:53:58.000000000 -0500
> +++ linux/drivers/base/memory.c 2013-05-28 22:56:49.000000000 -0500
These changes look good, but this email doesn't play nice with `git am`. ex:
"fatal: corrupt patch at line 80"
There is nothing particularly bad about line 80. Please fix and resend
(git format-patch generally gets this right, maybe use that?)
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-05-29 21:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-05-29 5:17 [PATCH updated] drivers/base: Use attribute groups to create sysfs memory files Nathan Fontenot
2013-05-29 16:31 ` Liu Jiang
2013-05-29 21:27 ` Cody P Schafer [this message]
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