From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: "Thomas Weißschuh" <linux@weissschuh.net>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@kernel.org>,
Danilo Krummrich <dakr@kernel.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 0/7] sysfs: prepare the constification of struct attribute
Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2025 15:17:24 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2025112614-islamist-emit-2a4b@gregkh> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20251029-sysfs-const-attr-prep-v5-0-ea7d745acff4@weissschuh.net>
On Wed, Oct 29, 2025 at 09:12:09AM +0100, Thomas Weißschuh wrote:
> The migration of 'struct attribute' and its related structures and
> macros are more complicated than those for 'struct bin_attribute'.
> Mostly because they are all shared by various custom attribute types.
> Introduce some initial utilities to support the migration.
> These are enough to migrate some specialized attributes atomically or
> those which don't use 'struct attribute' in their callbacks stepwise.
>
> The big outstanding problems are 'struct device_attribute' and
> 'struct kobj_attribute'. These are used everywhere and I'm not yet sure
> about a migration plan.
>
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh <linux@weissschuh.net>
> ---
Sorry for the delay, this looks good, now queued up.
greg k-h
prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-11-26 14:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-10-29 8:12 Thomas Weißschuh
2025-10-29 8:12 ` [PATCH v5 1/7] sysfs: attribute_group: allow registration of const attribute Thomas Weißschuh
2025-10-29 8:12 ` [PATCH v5 2/7] sysfs: transparently handle const pointers in ATTRIBUTE_GROUPS() Thomas Weißschuh
2025-10-29 8:12 ` [PATCH v5 3/7] sysfs: introduce __SYSFS_FUNCTION_ALTERNATIVE() Thomas Weißschuh
2025-10-29 8:12 ` [PATCH v5 4/7] sysfs: attribute_group: enable const variants of is_visible() Thomas Weißschuh
2025-10-29 8:12 ` [PATCH v5 5/7] samples/kobject: add is_visible() callback to attribute group Thomas Weißschuh
2025-10-29 8:12 ` [PATCH v5 6/7] samples/kobject: constify 'struct foo_attribute' Thomas Weißschuh
2025-10-29 8:12 ` [PATCH v5 7/7] sysfs: simplify attribute definition macros Thomas Weißschuh
2025-11-26 14:17 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman [this message]
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