Re: [PATCH v2] xen: xen-pciback: remove DRIVER_ATTR() usage

From: Juergen Gross
Date: Wed Jul 19 2017 - 13:20:25 EST


On 19/07/17 17:17, Greg KH wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 19, 2017 at 04:51:02PM +0200, Juergen Gross wrote:
>> On 19/07/17 16:43, Greg KH wrote:
>>> From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>
>>> It's better to be explicit and use the DRIVER_ATTR_RW() and
>>> DRIVER_ATTR_RO() macros when defining a driver's sysfs file.
>>>
>>> Bonus is this fixes up a checkpatch.pl warning.
>>>
>>> This is part of a series to drop DRIVER_ATTR() from the tree entirely.
>>>
>>> Cc: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>> Cc: Juergen Gross <jgross@xxxxxxxx>
>>> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>
>> Reviewed-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@xxxxxxxx>
>>
>> I'll take this through the Xen tree, unless you want to use your tree.
>
> If I can take it through mine, then I could drop DRIVER_ATTR() from the
> whole tree for the next kernel release, which would be ideal.
>
> But if you want to take it, that's fine, I can wait another release, no
> rush.

In this case just use your tree. I don't think there are any pending
conflicting patches right now.


Juergen