[PATCH 0/2] Deduplicate bin_attribute simple read() callbacks

Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh at linuxfoundation.org
Thu Apr 11 23:07:46 AEST 2024


On Sat, Apr 06, 2024 at 03:52:00PM +0200, Lukas Wunner wrote:
> For my upcoming PCI device authentication v2 patches, I have the need
> to expose a simple buffer in virtual memory as a bin_attribute.
> 
> It turns out we've duplicated the ->read() callback for such simple
> buffers a fair number of times across the tree.
> 
> So instead of reinventing the wheel, I decided to introduce a common
> helper and eliminate all duplications I could find.
> 
> I'm open to a bikeshedding discussion on the sysfs_bin_attr_simple_read()
> name. ;)

Seems like no one objects, should I just take this through my
driver-core tree for 6.10?

thanks,

greg k-h


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