From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@arm.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC/RFT v3 1/9] drivers: base: add new class "cpu" to group cpu devices
Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2014 16:42:37 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140301004237.GB30634@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1392825976-17633-2-git-send-email-sudeep.holla@arm.com>
On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 04:06:08PM +0000, Sudeep Holla wrote:
> From: Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@arm.com>
>
> This patch creates a new class called "cpu" and assigns it to all the
> cpu devices. This helps in grouping all the cpu devices and associated
> child devices under the same class.
>
> This patch also:
> 1. modifies the get_parent_device to return the legacy path
> (/sys/devices/system/cpu/..) for the cpu class devices to support
> existing sysfs ABI
> 2. avoids creating link in the class directory pointing to the device as
> there would be per-cpu instance of these devices with the same name
> 3. makes sure subsystem symlink continues pointing to cpu bus instead of
> cpu class for cpu devices
>
> Signed-off-by: Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@arm.com>
> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Does the sysfs layout change at all with this patch applied?
thanks,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-03-01 0:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-02-19 16:06 [PATCH RFC/RFT v3 0/9] drivers: cacheinfo support Sudeep Holla
2014-02-19 16:06 ` [PATCH RFC/RFT v3 1/9] drivers: base: add new class "cpu" to group cpu devices Sudeep Holla
2014-03-01 0:42 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman [this message]
2014-03-03 7:28 ` Sudeep Holla
2014-02-19 16:06 ` [PATCH RFC/RFT v3 2/9] drivers: base: support cpu cache information interface to userspace via sysfs Sudeep Holla
2014-03-01 0:42 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2014-03-03 7:39 ` Sudeep Holla
2014-02-19 16:06 ` [PATCH RFC/RFT v3 3/9] ia64: move cacheinfo sysfs to generic cacheinfo infrastructure Sudeep Holla
2014-02-19 16:06 ` [PATCH RFC/RFT v3 4/9] s390: " Sudeep Holla
2014-02-20 8:38 ` Heiko Carstens
2014-02-20 13:33 ` Sudeep Holla
2014-02-20 14:07 ` Heiko Carstens
2014-02-20 14:37 ` Sudeep Holla
2014-02-19 16:06 ` [PATCH RFC/RFT v3 5/9] x86: " Sudeep Holla
2014-02-19 16:06 ` [PATCH RFC/RFT v3 6/9] powerpc: " Sudeep Holla
2014-03-07 4:06 ` Anshuman Khandual
2014-03-07 6:14 ` Anshuman Khandual
2014-03-10 11:12 ` Sudeep Holla
2014-03-21 3:44 ` Anshuman Khandual
2014-03-21 12:04 ` Sudeep Holla
2014-02-19 16:06 ` [PATCH RFC/RFT v3 7/9] ARM64: kernel: add support for cpu cache information Sudeep Holla
2014-02-19 16:06 ` [PATCH RFC/RFT v3 8/9] ARM: " Sudeep Holla
2014-02-19 16:06 ` [PATCH RFC/RFT v3 9/9] ARM: kernel: add outer cache support for cacheinfo implementation Sudeep Holla
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