Re: [PATCH] Use attribute groups in struct device_type

[Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@insightbb.com>]

On Saturday 10 March 2007 01:55, Greg KH wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 09, 2007 at 10:54:43PM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Sat, Mar 10, 2007 at 01:37:34AM -0500, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> > > Greg,
> > > 
> > > Please consider applying the patch below. It switches struct device_type
> > > to using attribute groups which os more flexible. I am using it in my
> > > input class_device -> device conversion (which is 99% done btw).
> > 
> > Argh, I never sent you my version of that, did I?  Very sorry about
> > that, I was working on fixing up the device namespace issue first, which
> > isn't done yet :(
> > 
> > Anyway, my patch that did that is below, feel free to use it or not if
> > you want.
> > 
> > > I looked through -mm and the latest git and there does not seem to be
> > > any users of struct device_type yet...
> > 
> > Yes, the input patch below uses it and I have a block-device patch from
> > Kay in my tree that Andrew doesn't pull from (as it's usually really
> > messed up and I know to hide this kind of breakage from him...)
> 
> Oops, that patch didn't use it, this follow-on patch from Kay uses them.
> 

Ok, so input portion in your tree does not use type->attrs so we don't
have a conflict here. Unless my patch messes up Kay's blockdev patch
badly I'd like you to accept it. Input uses 3 attribute groups and I
don't want to open-code their creation/removal.

-- 
Dmitry