From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Mario Limonciello <mario.limonciello@dell.com>
Cc: dvhart@infradead.org, Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@gmail.com>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
platform-driver-x86@vger.kernel.org,
Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>,
quasisec@google.com, pali.rohar@gmail.com, rjw@rjwysocki.net,
mjg59@google.com, hch@lst.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 14/14] platform/x86: dell-smbios-wmi: introduce userspace interface
Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2017 15:59:20 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20171010135920.GD8662@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <411980beb5697e312145ef268516f4cc7c585b8f.1507589249.git.mario.limonciello@dell.com>
On Mon, Oct 09, 2017 at 05:51:52PM -0500, Mario Limonciello wrote:
> + ret = device_create_file(&wdev->dev, &priv->req_buf_size_attr);
> + if (ret)
> + goto fail_create_sysfs;
Why isn't the "WMI core" creating this sysfs file? Why have per-driver
sysfs files, making all of the different apis totally different? It's a
"common" attribute that they are all going to have to provide, right?
That way you also don't race with userspace :)
thanks,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-10-10 13:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-10-09 22:51 [PATCH v6 00/14] Introduce support for Dell SMBIOS over WMI Mario Limonciello
2017-10-09 22:51 ` [PATCH v6 01/14] platform/x86: wmi: Add new method wmidev_evaluate_method Mario Limonciello
2017-10-09 22:51 ` [PATCH v6 02/14] platform/x86: dell-wmi: increase severity of some failures Mario Limonciello
2017-10-09 22:51 ` [PATCH v6 03/14] platform/x86: dell-wmi: clean up wmi descriptor check Mario Limonciello
2017-10-09 22:51 ` [PATCH v6 04/14] platform/x86: dell-wmi: allow 32k return size in the descriptor Mario Limonciello
2017-10-09 22:51 ` [PATCH v6 05/14] platform/x86: dell-wmi-descriptor: split WMI descriptor into it's own driver Mario Limonciello
2017-10-10 8:17 ` Pali Rohár
2017-10-10 13:40 ` Mario.Limonciello
2017-10-09 22:51 ` [PATCH v6 06/14] platform/x86: wmi: Don't allow drivers to get each other's GUIDs Mario Limonciello
2017-10-09 22:51 ` [PATCH v6 07/14] platform/x86: dell-smbios: only run if proper oem string is detected Mario Limonciello
2017-10-09 22:51 ` [PATCH v6 08/14] platform/x86: dell-smbios: Add a sysfs interface for SMBIOS tokens Mario Limonciello
2017-10-09 22:51 ` [PATCH v6 09/14] platform/x86: dell-smbios: Introduce dispatcher for SMM calls Mario Limonciello
2017-10-10 16:01 ` Pali Rohár
2017-10-10 19:14 ` Mario.Limonciello
2017-10-12 23:30 ` Darren Hart
2017-10-09 22:51 ` [PATCH v6 10/14] platform/x86: dell-smbios: add filtering capability for requests Mario Limonciello
2017-10-10 18:31 ` Pali Rohár
2017-10-10 20:31 ` Mario.Limonciello
2017-10-09 22:51 ` [PATCH v6 11/14] platform/x86: dell-smbios-wmi: Add new WMI dispatcher driver Mario Limonciello
2017-10-12 1:02 ` kbuild test robot
2017-10-09 22:51 ` [PATCH v6 12/14] platform/x86: dell-smbios-smm: test for WSMT Mario Limonciello
2017-10-10 19:11 ` Pali Rohár
2017-10-09 22:51 ` [PATCH v6 13/14] platform/x86: wmi: create character devices when requested by drivers Mario Limonciello
2017-10-10 11:04 ` Greg KH
2017-10-10 11:06 ` Greg KH
2017-10-10 13:41 ` Mario.Limonciello
2017-10-10 13:57 ` Greg KH
2017-10-10 14:00 ` Mario.Limonciello
2017-10-10 19:11 ` Pali Rohár
2017-10-10 19:24 ` Mario.Limonciello
2017-10-11 12:33 ` Alan Cox
2017-10-09 22:51 ` [PATCH v6 14/14] platform/x86: dell-smbios-wmi: introduce userspace interface Mario Limonciello
2017-10-10 13:59 ` Greg KH [this message]
2017-10-10 14:17 ` Mario.Limonciello
2017-10-12 1:13 ` kbuild test robot
2017-10-12 1:16 ` kbuild test robot
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