From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Nathan Fontenot <nfont@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: linux-mm <linux-mm@kvack.org>, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] drivers/base: Use attribute groups to create sysfs memory files
Date: Tue, 21 May 2013 09:33:12 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130521163312.GA27705@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <518A78CC.2000501@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
On Wed, May 08, 2013 at 11:09:48AM -0500, Nathan Fontenot wrote:
> Update the sysfs memory code to create/delete files at the time of device
> and subsystem registration.
>
> The current code creates files in the root memory directory explicitly through
> the use of init_* routines. The files for each memory block are created and
> deleted explicitly using the mem_[create|delete]_simple_file macros.
>
> This patch creates attribute groups for the memory root files and files in
> each memory block directory so that they are created and deleted implicitly
> at subsys and device register and unregister time.
>
> This did necessitate moving the register_memory() and unregister_memory()
> routines in the file. There are no changes to unregister_memory, the
> register_memory routine is only updated to set the dev.groups field.
>
> Signed-off-by: Nathan Fontenot <nfont@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
>
> Please cc me on responses/comments.
> ---
> drivers/base/memory.c | 163 ++++++++++++++++++++++----------------------------
> 1 file changed, 72 insertions(+), 91 deletions(-)
This doesn't seem to apply to 3.10-rc2, can you refresh it and resend it
so that I can apply it?
thanks,
greg k-h
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