Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757130AbYFTWZL (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Jun 2008 18:25:11 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754547AbYFTWY5 (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Jun 2008 18:24:57 -0400 Received: from rgminet01.oracle.com ([148.87.113.118]:53249 "EHLO rgminet01.oracle.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754434AbYFTWY4 (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Jun 2008 18:24:56 -0400 Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2008 14:37:08 -0700 From: Joel Becker To: Ben Nizette Cc: Johannes Berg , "Luis R. Rodriguez" , linux-wireless , linux kernel , Greg KH , Satyam Sharma , Felix Fietkau , Al Viro , "H. Peter Anvin" Subject: Re: [RFC PATCHES] Re: Is configfs the right solution for configuration based fs? Message-ID: <20080620213708.GC21416@mail.oracle.com> Mail-Followup-To: Ben Nizette , Johannes Berg , "Luis R. Rodriguez" , linux-wireless , linux kernel , Greg KH , Satyam Sharma , Felix Fietkau , Al Viro , "H. Peter Anvin" References: <43e72e890806081425h4e785800nc618fc1985f9809f@mail.gmail.com> <1213002187.698.62.camel@johannes.berg> <1213056772.4089.42.camel@moss.renham> <20080619024804.GA29765@mail.oracle.com> <1213942750.2336.43.camel@moss.renham> <20080620065253.GA14238@ca-server1.us.oracle.com> <1213953776.2336.75.camel@moss.renham> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1213953776.2336.75.camel@moss.renham> X-Burt-Line: Trees are cool. X-Red-Smith: Ninety feet between bases is perhaps as close as man has ever come to perfection. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-Whitelist: TRUE X-Whitelist: TRUE Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1041 Lines: 30 On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 07:22:56PM +1000, Ben Nizette wrote: > A version of my gpio-dev interface is attached. Bear in mind it was > never completed, it's full of known bugs but hey, might be useful for > you anyway :-) Looks good. Fits about what I would expect a configfs interface to look like, with simple show/store stuff. I can see where some macros would have shortened some bolierplate. Was there any other boilerplate you found cumbersome? I mean outside of defining attribute structs and the show/store_attr() trampoline functions? Let me know, so I can incorporate it. Joel -- Life's Little Instruction Book #444 "Never underestimate the power of a kind word or deed." Joel Becker Principal Software Developer Oracle E-mail: joel.becker@oracle.com Phone: (650) 506-8127 -- 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/