From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753183AbaKGTWP (ORCPT ); Fri, 7 Nov 2014 14:22:15 -0500 Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:42917 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752972AbaKGTWO (ORCPT ); Fri, 7 Nov 2014 14:22:14 -0500 Date: Fri, 7 Nov 2014 11:22:13 -0800 From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: Sudeep Holla Cc: LKML , Heiko Carstens , Lorenzo Pieralisi , David Herrmann , Kay Sievers Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 03/11] drivers: base: add cpu_device_create to support per-cpu devices Message-ID: <20141107192213.GA30923@kroah.com> References: <1412084912-2767-1-git-send-email-sudeep.holla@arm.com> <1412084912-2767-4-git-send-email-sudeep.holla@arm.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1412084912-2767-4-git-send-email-sudeep.holla@arm.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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 > Tested-by: Stephen Boyd > Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman > Cc: David Herrmann > Cc: Kay Sievers Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman