Re: [PATCH] driver core: implement uevent suppress in kobject(v1)

[Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>]

On Mon, Mar 02, 2009 at 06:51:25PM +0100, Cornelia Huck wrote:
> On Sun,  1 Mar 2009 21:10:49 +0800,
> tom.leiming@gmail.com wrote:
> 
> > From: Ming Lei <tom.leiming@gmail.com>
> > 
> > This patch implements uevent suppress in kobject and removes it
> > from struct device, based on the following ideas:
> > 
> > 1,Uevent sending should be one attribute of kobject, so suppressing it
> > in kobject layer is more natural than in device layer. By this way,
> > we can do it for other objects embedded with kobject.
> > 
> > 2,It may save several bytes for each instance of struct device.(On my
> > omap3(32bit ARM) based box, can save 8bytes per device object)
> > 
> > This patch also introduces dev_set|get_uevent_suppress() helpers to
> > set and query uevent_suppress attribute in case to help kobject
> > as private part of struct device in future.
> 
> But moving the kobject into an allocated private structure would be
> rather broken?

For one thing, attribute usages, yes, it is a "broken" idea, but one
that I have played around with at times.

The main reason I was wanting to do this was to fix the issue of
statically created kobjects, which is not a good idea.  But that's a
long-term goal, that I'm still working toward in different ways (fixing
up sysdev is the first thing to help with that.)

> I have no objections to the patch, though, and it worked fine on my
> s390 LPAR.

I don't either, thanks for testing.  Ming, I'll add this to my queue,
thanks for doing it.

greg k-h