Re: [patch 12/21] perfmon2 minimal: sysfs interface

[stephane eranian]

Greg,

On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 4:49 PM, Greg KH <greg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 09, 2008 at 03:34:25PM -0700, eranian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>> +
>> +static struct kobject pfm_kernel_kobj;
>
> Eeek, no, please look at Documentation/kobject.txt that says to not ever
> have static kobjects.
>
Will do.

> I think a lot of this code can be cleaned up and shrunk given the way
> that kobjects have changed recently.  See the examples in
> samples/kobject/ and the documentation file for more details.
>
If you say so. When building the series, I also wondered why there was
so much code in there. But it was not clear to me how it could be shrunk.
I saw some simplifications in 2.6.26 but still a lot of small functions.

> If you have any questions about it, please let me know.
>
> Also, whenever you add a sysfs file to the kernel, please document it in
> Documentation/ABI/ so that everyone knows what it is and how to use it.
>

I have that in my GIT tree. I simply forgot to include them in the quilt series.
I will fix that.
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