[PATCH] [3/4] PMC-related cleanups

Olof Johansson olof at lixom.net
Mon Jan 29 14:02:38 EST 2007


On Fri, Jan 26, 2007 at 02:32:04PM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 25, 2007 at 02:20:02AM -0600, Olof Johansson wrote:
> > Introduce _SYSDEV_ATTR(), to be used to just define the struct, and not a
> > named variable with the attribute. Useful for arrays of sysdev_attributes.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Olof Johansson <olof at lixom.net>
> > 
> > 
> > Index: powerpc/include/linux/sysdev.h
> > ===================================================================
> > --- powerpc.orig/include/linux/sysdev.h
> > +++ powerpc/include/linux/sysdev.h
> > @@ -98,12 +98,15 @@ struct sysdev_attribute { 
> >  };
> >  
> >  
> > -#define SYSDEV_ATTR(_name,_mode,_show,_store) 		\
> > -struct sysdev_attribute attr_##_name = { 			\
> > +#define _SYSDEV_ATTR(_name,_mode,_show,_store)			\
> > +{								\
> >  	.attr = {.name = __stringify(_name), .mode = _mode },	\
> >  	.show	= _show,					\
> >  	.store	= _store,					\
> > -};
> > +}
> 
> Oops, you need to add '.owner' to that attribute structure.  In all
> fairness, it's a bug, not caused by anything that you did.

Got it, see repost.

> If you add that, feel free to add my:
> 	Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh at suse.de>
> 
> to the patch and send it through Paul.

Thanks!


-Olof



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