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

Lukas Wunner lukas at wunner.de
Thu Apr 11 23:39:50 AEST 2024


On Thu, Apr 11, 2024 at 03:07:46PM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> 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?

That would be awesome, thank you!

Lukas


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