Re: [PATCH 1/1] Introduce Intel RAPL cooling device driver

[Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Tue, Apr 02, 2013 at 04:33:57PM -0700, Jacob Pan wrote:
> On Tue, 2 Apr 2013 16:00:42 -0700
> Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> 
> > > +#include "intel_rapl.h"
> > > +#include "../../../fs/sysfs/sysfs.h"  
> > 
> > WTF?
> > 
> > Oh, that's a sure sign you are not doing something properly, if you
> > think it's ok to muck around with the internals of sysfs.
> > 
> > There's a reason that file is "private", why do you think it's ok to
> > use it directly?  Did you just think that I somehow "forgot" to put
> > it in the proper include directory?
> I did feel unsure about this but i saw some precedence in the kernel.

Someone else is doing this with the sysfs api?  I don't see any other
code in Linus's tree doing this at the moment, where did you see this?
Let me know and I'll fix it up right away.

> Anyway, I needed a way to validate a userspace file passed to rapl
> driver belong to the same sysfs directory. I will look for alternative
> ways.

What do you mean by this?  What exactly are you trying to do?  No normal
driver code should _ever_ call sysfs functions directly, nor should they
ever care about sysfs internals.

And, odds are, you didn't test your code as a module, right, as any
internal sysfs function that you could get from this .h file, wouldn't
be exported for a module to use, unless I missed one somewhere?

greg k-h