From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Greg KH Subject: Re: [PATCH 035/117] Staging: hv: vmbus: Introduce a function to map the dev_type guid to a name Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2011 16:01:06 -0700 Message-ID: <20110823230106.GJ9641@kroah.com> References: <1310752024-27854-1-git-send-email-kys@microsoft.com> <1310752065-27895-1-git-send-email-kys@microsoft.com> <1310752065-27895-35-git-send-email-kys@microsoft.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1310752065-27895-35-git-send-email-kys@microsoft.com> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: devel-bounces@linuxdriverproject.org Sender: devel-bounces@linuxdriverproject.org To: "K. Y. Srinivasan" Cc: devel@linuxdriverproject.org, Haiyang Zhang , gregkh@suse.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, virtualization@lists.osdl.org List-Id: virtualization@lists.linuxfoundation.org On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 10:46:23AM -0700, K. Y. Srinivasan wrote: > To support "human readable" sysfs attribute, introduce a function to map the > dev_type guid to a string. > > Signed-off-by: K. Y. Srinivasan > Signed-off-by: Haiyang Zhang > --- > drivers/staging/hv/channel_mgmt.c | 36 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > drivers/staging/hv/hyperv.h | 2 +- > 2 files changed, 37 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/drivers/staging/hv/channel_mgmt.c b/drivers/staging/hv/channel_mgmt.c > index 11beb41..926bc87 100644 > --- a/drivers/staging/hv/channel_mgmt.c > +++ b/drivers/staging/hv/channel_mgmt.c > @@ -112,6 +112,42 @@ static const uuid_le > > }; > > +static const char *blk_dev_type = "hv_block"; > +static const char *net_dev_type = "hv_net"; > +static const char *scsi_dev_type = "hv_scsi"; > +static const char *mouse_dev_type = "hv_mouse"; > +static const char *util_dev_type = "hv_util"; Ick, no. There should never be any type of "central" knowledge of the different driver names or types like this. It should all be self-contained within the individual drivers. You will note that no other bus type has this type of thing, which should have been a hint that you should not have done this... greg k-h