From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753481AbbIQG3s (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Sep 2015 02:29:48 -0400 Received: from mail-wi0-f173.google.com ([209.85.212.173]:34289 "EHLO mail-wi0-f173.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752696AbbIQG3k convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Sep 2015 02:29:40 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH] configfs: Implement binary attributes Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 8.2 \(2104\)) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 From: Pantelis Antoniou In-Reply-To: <20150917003704.GA9732@infradead.org> Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2015 09:29:35 +0300 Cc: Joel Becker , Jonathan Corbet , Rob Herring , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Nicholas Bellinger , Felipe Balbi Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Message-Id: <37AF1B0B-B1BE-471D-BD0A-6AF9A910B3A2@konsulko.com> References: <1442419730-4771-1-git-send-email-pantelis.antoniou@konsulko.com> <20150917003704.GA9732@infradead.org> To: Christoph Hellwig X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.2104) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi Christoph, > On Sep 17, 2015, at 03:37 , Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > Hi Pantelis, > > can you check if your patches become simpler on top of the changes > in this tree: > > http://git.infradead.org/users/hch/block.git/shortlog/refs/heads/configfs.2 > > I recently started using configfs and came up with this to avoid > the gigantic amounts of boilerplate code required for configfs > attributes at the moment. I plan to send it out soon. Yes, indeed this is interesting. I could rebase on-top of your tree and try to make things simpler. Do you mind if you carry the binary attribute patch along when you post yours? Regards — Pantelis