From: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
To: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] sysfs: add devm_sysfs_create_group() and friends
Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2017 10:04:45 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170607170445.GC13116@dtor-ws> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170327193544.GB30423@kroah.com>
On Mon, Mar 27, 2017 at 09:35:45PM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 27, 2017 at 10:53:59AM -0700, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> > On Sun, Feb 12, 2017 at 04:36:19PM -0800, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> > > Many drivers create additional driver-specific device attributes when
> > > binding to the device and providing managed version of sysfs_create_group()
> > > will simplify unbinding and error handling in probe path for such drivers.
> > >
> > > Without managed version driver writers either have to mix manual and
> > > managed resources, which is prone to errors, or open-code this function by
> > > providing a wrapper to sysfs_create_group() and use it with
> > > devm_add_action() or devm_add_action_or_reset().
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
> > > ---
> >
> > Greg, gentle ping...
>
> It's not lost, it's in my queue...
Another gentle ping...
--
Dmitry
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-06-07 17:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-02-13 0:36 [PATCH 1/2] driver core: emit uevents when device is bound to a driver Dmitry Torokhov
2017-02-13 0:36 ` [PATCH 2/2] sysfs: add devm_sysfs_create_group() and friends Dmitry Torokhov
2017-03-27 17:53 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2017-03-27 19:35 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2017-06-07 17:04 ` Dmitry Torokhov [this message]
2017-06-17 19:27 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2017-02-13 12:07 ` [PATCH 1/2] driver core: emit uevents when device is bound to a driver Greg Kroah-Hartman
2017-02-13 18:46 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2017-02-14 0:52 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2017-02-14 4:22 ` Dmitry Torokhov
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2017-07-18 19:30 [PATCH 0/2] New bind/unbingd uevents Dmitry Torokhov
2017-07-18 19:30 ` [PATCH 2/2] sysfs: add devm_sysfs_create_group() and friends Dmitry Torokhov
2017-07-18 20:03 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2017-07-18 20:26 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2017-07-19 7:34 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
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