From: "Marek Behún" <kabel@kernel.org>
To: "Ilpo Järvinen" <ilpo.jarvinen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Gregory CLEMENT <gregory.clement@bootlin.com>,
Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
soc@kernel.org, arm@kernel.org, Andy Shevchenko <andy@kernel.org>,
Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 10/19] firmware: turris-mox-rwtm: Simplify driver kobject code
Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2024 15:31:24 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20240613153124.6d5928ec@dellmb> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6a617e8c-9d11-47f5-ca43-0c166a3c0297@linux.intel.com>
On Thu, 13 Jun 2024 13:19:47 +0300 (EEST)
Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@linux.intel.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 13 Jun 2024, Marek Behún wrote:
>
> > On Thu, 13 Jun 2024 11:31:43 +0300 (EEST)
> > Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@linux.intel.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Is empty .release necessary at all? I found some kobj_type structs without
> > > .release so I'd expect it to be unnecessary.
> >
> > lib/kobject.c function kobject_cleanup() has the following:
> >
> > if (t && !t->release)
> > pr_debug("'%s' (%p): does not have a release() function, it is broken and must be fixed. See Documentation/core-api/kobject.rst.\n",
>
> Hmm, the plot thickens... that documentation file says:
>
> 'Do not try to get rid of this warning by providing an "empty" release
> function.'
>
> ?
This whole thing stinks. I will rewrite it so that the attributes will
be under the device's kobject, as they should be. This way I can get
rid of the whole own kobject type.
Then I will add a symlink from /sys/firmware/turris-mox-rwtm to the
device, for sysfs ABI compatibility.
Marek
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-06-13 13:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-06-12 13:54 [PATCH 00/19] Updates for turris-mox-rwtm driver Marek Behún
2024-06-12 13:54 ` [PATCH 01/19] firmware: turris-mox-rwtm: Do not complete if there are no waiters Marek Behún
2024-06-12 13:54 ` [PATCH 02/19] firmware: turris-mox-rwtm: Fix checking return value of wait_for_completion_timeout() Marek Behún
2024-06-13 8:06 ` Ilpo Järvinen
2024-06-12 13:54 ` [PATCH 03/19] firmware: turris-mox-rwtm: Use PAGE_SIZE instead of hardcoded 4096 Marek Behún
2024-06-13 8:01 ` Ilpo Järvinen
2024-06-13 9:54 ` Marek Behún
2024-06-12 13:54 ` [PATCH 04/19] firmware: turris-mox-rwtm: Use ETH_ALEN instead of hardcoded 6 Marek Behún
2024-06-13 8:02 ` Ilpo Järvinen
2024-06-12 13:54 ` [PATCH 05/19] firmware: turris-mox-rwtm: Use the boolean type where appropriate Marek Behún
2024-06-12 13:54 ` [PATCH 06/19] firmware: turris-mox-rwtm: Hide signature related constants behind macros Marek Behún
2024-06-12 13:54 ` [PATCH 07/19] firmware: turris-mox-rwtm: Fix driver includes Marek Behún
2024-06-12 13:54 ` [PATCH 08/19] firmware: turris-mox-rwtm: Use kobj_type's default_groups member for automatic sysfs files creation Marek Behún
2024-06-13 8:14 ` Ilpo Järvinen
2024-06-12 13:54 ` [PATCH 09/19] firmware: turris-mox-rwtm: Simplify debugfs code Marek Behún
2024-06-12 13:54 ` [PATCH 10/19] firmware: turris-mox-rwtm: Simplify driver kobject code Marek Behún
2024-06-13 8:31 ` Ilpo Järvinen
2024-06-13 9:55 ` Marek Behún
2024-06-13 10:19 ` Ilpo Järvinen
2024-06-13 13:31 ` Marek Behún [this message]
2024-06-13 13:37 ` Ilpo Järvinen
2024-06-13 15:39 ` Marek Behún
2024-06-13 15:44 ` Ilpo Järvinen
2024-06-12 13:54 ` [PATCH 11/19] firmware: turris-mox-rwtm: Return true error code if kobject_add() fails Marek Behún
2024-06-12 13:54 ` [PATCH 12/19] firmware: turris-mox-rwtm: Convert rest to devm_* and get rid of driver .remove() Marek Behún
2024-06-12 13:54 ` [PATCH 13/19] firmware: turris-mox-rwtm: Use dev_err_probe() where possible Marek Behún
2024-06-12 13:54 ` [PATCH 14/19] firmware: turris-mox-rwtm: Rearrange probe calls Marek Behún
2024-06-12 13:54 ` [PATCH 15/19] firmware: turris-mox-rwtm: Drop redundant device pointer Marek Behún
2024-06-12 13:54 ` [PATCH 16/19] firmware: turris-mox-rwtm: Use devm_mutex_init() instead of mutex_init() Marek Behún
2024-06-12 13:54 ` [PATCH 17/19] firmware: turris-mox-rwtm: Use container_of() instead of hwrng .priv member Marek Behún
2024-06-12 13:54 ` [PATCH 18/19] firmware: turris-mox-rwtm: Deduplicate command execution code Marek Behún
2024-06-12 13:54 ` [PATCH 19/19] firmware: turris-mox-rwtm: Use EOPNOTSUPP instead of ENOSYS Marek Behún
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