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From: "Mike D. Day" <ncmike@us.ibm.com>
To: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
Cc: xen-devel@lists.xensource.com,
	lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Subject: Re: [ PATCH 2.6.16-rc3-xen 3/3] sysfs: export Xen hypervisor	attributes to sysfs
Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2006 12:48:43 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <43FB527B.5030404@us.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1140542130.8693.18.camel@localhost.localdomain>

Dave Hansen wrote:
> It could be:
> 
> +---sys
>         +---hypervisor
>                 +---type
> 		+---version
>                         +---major
>                         +---minor
>                         +---extra
> 

Yeah, the type file could be useful.

>> +static ssize_t extra_show(struct kobject * kobj,
>> +			  struct attribute * attr,
>> +			  char * page)
>> +{
>> +	char extra_ver[XENVER_EXTRAVERSION_LEN];
> 
> At 1k, this is a wee bit too big to be on the stack.  I'd just kmalloc
> it instead.

This particular constant is 16 bytes so I'll leave it as is. The other 
one (CAPABILTIES_INFO), which is 1k, I did kmalloc as you suggested.

>> +static void xen_compilation_destroy(void)
>> +{
>> +	sysfs_remove_group(c_kobj, &xen_compilation_group);
>> +	kobject_put(c_kobj);
>> +	return;
>> +}
> 
> Yup, this is another excellent function name.

I'll change the others to be as descriptive. Thanks,

Mike Day

  reply	other threads:[~2006-02-21 17:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-02-21 14:40 [ PATCH 2.6.16-rc3-xen 3/3] sysfs: export Xen hypervisor attributes to sysfs Mike D. Day
2006-02-21 17:15 ` Dave Hansen
2006-02-21 17:48   ` Mike D. Day [this message]
2006-02-22 12:32   ` Heiko Carstens
2006-02-22 12:37     ` Mike D. Day
2006-02-22 12:56       ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-02-22 13:06         ` Mike D. Day
2006-02-22 13:19           ` Heiko Carstens
2006-02-22 13:43             ` Mike D. Day
2006-02-22 14:01               ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-02-22 16:08                 ` Mike D. Day
2006-02-23  4:26                 ` Anthony Liguori
2006-02-23  8:24                   ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-02-21 18:02 ` Alan Cox
2006-02-21 18:10 ` Greg KH
2006-02-22 12:26 ` Heiko Carstens

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