From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@arm.com>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>,
Lorenzo Pieralisi <Lorenzo.Pieralisi@arm.com>,
David Herrmann <dh.herrmann@gmail.com>,
Kay Sievers <kay@vrfy.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 03/11] drivers: base: add cpu_device_create to support per-cpu devices
Date: Fri, 7 Nov 2014 11:22:13 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20141107192213.GA30923@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1412084912-2767-4-git-send-email-sudeep.holla@arm.com>
On Tue, Sep 30, 2014 at 02:48:24PM +0100, Sudeep Holla wrote:
> This patch adds a new function to create per-cpu devices.
> This helps in:
> 1. reusing the device infrastructure to create any cpu related
> attributes and corresponding sysfs instead of creating and
> dealing with raw kobjects directly
> 2. retaining the legacy path(/sys/devices/system/cpu/..) to support
> existing sysfs ABI
> 3. avoiding to create links in the bus directory pointing to the
> device as there would be per-cpu instance of these devices with
> the same name since dev->bus is not populated to cpu_sysbus on
> purpose
>
> Signed-off-by: Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@arm.com>
> Tested-by: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org>
> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
> Cc: David Herrmann <dh.herrmann@gmail.com>
> Cc: Kay Sievers <kay@vrfy.org>
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-11-07 19:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-09-30 13:48 [PATCH v5 00/11] drivers: cacheinfo support Sudeep Holla
2014-09-30 13:48 ` [PATCH v5 01/11] cpumask: factor out show_cpumap into separate helper function Sudeep Holla
2014-09-30 13:48 ` [PATCH v5 02/11] topology: replace custom attribute macros with standard DEVICE_ATTR* Sudeep Holla
2014-09-30 13:48 ` [PATCH v5 03/11] drivers: base: add cpu_device_create to support per-cpu devices Sudeep Holla
2014-11-07 19:22 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman [this message]
2014-09-30 13:48 ` [PATCH v5 04/11] drivers: base: support cpu cache information interface to userspace via sysfs Sudeep Holla
2014-09-30 13:48 ` [PATCH v5 05/11] ia64: move cacheinfo sysfs to generic cacheinfo infrastructure Sudeep Holla
2014-09-30 13:48 ` [PATCH v5 06/11] s390: " Sudeep Holla
2014-09-30 13:48 ` [PATCH v5 07/11] x86: " Sudeep Holla
2014-09-30 13:48 ` [PATCH v5 08/11] powerpc: " Sudeep Holla
2014-09-30 13:48 ` [PATCH v5 09/11] ARM64: kernel: add support for cpu cache information Sudeep Holla
2014-09-30 13:48 ` [PATCH v5 10/11] ARM: " Sudeep Holla
2014-09-30 13:48 ` [PATCH v5 11/11] ARM: kernel: add outer cache support for cacheinfo implementation Sudeep Holla
2014-10-20 18:46 ` [PATCH v5 00/11] drivers: cacheinfo support Sudeep Holla
2014-10-20 18:49 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2014-10-21 9:26 ` Sudeep Holla
2014-11-07 19:23 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2014-11-07 19:40 ` Sudeep Holla
2014-11-07 19:45 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
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