Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755460AbYBYHm4 (ORCPT ); Mon, 25 Feb 2008 02:42:56 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752038AbYBYHmr (ORCPT ); Mon, 25 Feb 2008 02:42:47 -0500 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:36362 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751846AbYBYHmq (ORCPT ); Mon, 25 Feb 2008 02:42:46 -0500 Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2008 23:47:05 -0800 From: Greg KH To: Kohei KaiGai Cc: morgan@kernel.org, serue@us.ibm.com, linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] add a private data field within kobj_attribute structure (final#2) Message-ID: <20080225074705.GA19885@kroah.com> References: <47C25AE9.7080305@ak.jp.nec.com> <47C25BD3.3020205@ak.jp.nec.com> <20080225065106.GB20997@kroah.com> <47C266E8.8040604@ak.jp.nec.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <47C266E8.8040604@ak.jp.nec.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1383 Lines: 35 On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 03:57:44PM +0900, Kohei KaiGai wrote: > Greg KH wrote: >> On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 03:10:27PM +0900, Kohei KaiGai wrote: >>> [PATCH 1/3] add a private data field within kobj_attribute structure. >>> >>> This patch add a private data field, declared as void *, within >>> kobj_attribute >>> structure. The _show() and _store() method in the sysfs attribute entries >>> can >>> refer this information to identify what entry is accessed. >>> It makes easier to share a single method implementation with several >>> similar >>> entries, like ones to export the list of capabilities the running kernel >>> supports. >>> >>> Signed-off-by: KaiGai Kohei >>> -- >>> Documentation/kobject.txt | 6 ++++++ >> That's good, but you didn't modify the sample/kobject/ file to use the >> new void pointer, instead of the strcmp() call. > > The 3/3 of patches updates sample/kobject to use the new void pointer. > Do you want it to replace strcmp() examples completly? Doh, I totally missed that one, very sorry. I'll be glad to take patches 1 and 3 in my tree, if you want me to. thanks, greg k-h -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/