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From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Federico Vaga <federico.vaga@gmail.com>
Cc: Alessandro Rubini <rubini@gnudd.com>,
	linux-iio@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	dcobas@cern.ch, siglesia@cern.ch, manohar.vanga@cern.ch
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 2/7] include/linux: add headers for drivers/zio
Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2011 15:21:04 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20111130062104.GA11393@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAH5GJ0o_T3DpZ=AK5dsDjQobes2KRF4uVyyr-HxzA6tri_AYoA@mail.gmail.com>

On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 03:56:45PM +0100, Federico Vaga wrote:
> I don't reply to each point because I suppose the point is: "kobject
> or device for sysfs?", maybe I misunderstood.

That is correct.

> I know that it is not a good thing reply with a new question, but I
> think it can clarify the problem.
> 
> Why device is it preferred to export some sysfs attributes when sysfs
> ask me kobject?

If your code is working properly, you don't have to ever make sysfs
calls, only driver core calls, for sysfs files.  There might be a few
minor exceptions, but I think the coverage is all there now.

> As I tested both device and kobject, I'll do a parallel implementation
> with device.

As you are using a tree of devices, please use struct device, I can't
accept the code otherwise.

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2011-11-30  6:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-11-26 17:30 [RFC PATCH 0/7] Introducing ZIO, a new I/O framework Alessandro Rubini
2011-11-26 17:30 ` [RFC PATCH 1/7] Documentation: add docs for drivers/zio Alessandro Rubini
2011-11-26 20:00   ` Greg KH
2011-11-26 21:48     ` Federico Vaga
2011-11-26 22:16   ` Jonathan Cameron
2011-11-26 22:53   ` Alessandro Rubini
2011-12-06  5:12   ` Randy Dunlap
2011-11-26 17:30 ` [RFC PATCH 2/7] include/linux: add headers " Alessandro Rubini
2011-11-26 20:02   ` Greg KH
2011-11-26 21:46     ` Federico Vaga
2011-11-27  9:32       ` Greg KH
2011-11-28 14:56         ` Federico Vaga
2011-11-30  6:21           ` Greg KH [this message]
2011-11-26 17:30 ` [RFC PATCH 3/7] drivers/zio: core files for the ZIO input/output Alessandro Rubini
2011-11-26 20:03   ` Greg KH
2011-11-26 22:58     ` Federico Vaga
2011-11-27  9:33       ` Greg KH
2011-11-28 14:59         ` Federico Vaga
2011-11-26 17:30 ` [RFC PATCH 4/7] drivers/zio: add triggers and buffers Alessandro Rubini
2011-11-26 17:31 ` [RFC PATCH 5/7] drivers/zio: add the zio-zero device driver Alessandro Rubini
2011-11-26 17:31 ` [RFC PATCH 6/7] drivers/zio: add user-space tool zio-dump Alessandro Rubini
2011-11-26 17:31 ` [RFC PATCH 7/7] zio: insert in Kbuild so it is actually compiled Alessandro Rubini
2011-11-26 18:09 ` [RFC PATCH 0/7] Introducing ZIO, a new I/O framework Lars-Peter Clausen
2011-11-26 19:11 ` Alessandro Rubini
2011-12-01 21:41   ` Linus Walleij

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