Re: [RFC] support for sysfs string based properties for SCSI (1/3)

[Mike Anderson <andmike@us.ibm.com>]

Greg KH [greg@kroah.com] wrote:
> On Mon, May 05, 2003 at 12:08:35PM -0500, James Bottomley wrote:
> > On Mon, 2003-05-05 at 12:02, Greg KH wrote:
> > > On Sat, May 03, 2003 at 02:19:23PM -0500, James Bottomley wrote:
> > > > diff -Nru a/drivers/base/core.c b/drivers/base/core.c
> > > > --- a/drivers/base/core.c	Sat May  3 14:18:21 2003
> > > > +++ b/drivers/base/core.c	Sat May  3 14:18:21 2003
> > > > @@ -42,6 +42,8 @@
> > > >  
> > > >  	if (dev_attr->show)
> > > >  		ret = dev_attr->show(dev,buf);
> > > > +	else if (dev->bus->show)
> > > > +		ret = dev->bus->show(dev, buf, attr);
> > > >  	return ret;
> > > 
> > > Can't you do this by using the class interface instead?
> > 
> > I don't know, I haven't digested the class interface patches yet, since
> > they just appeared this morning.
> 
> I think Mike has a patch queued up that takes advantage of the class
> code, which might address all of these issues.  Mike?
> 

The patches I sent add class support for scsi_host, but this only gives
granularity of attributes specific to scsi_host. There is no built in
functionality to override show or store handler functions.


-andmike
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Michael Anderson
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