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From: Mihai Carabas <mihai.carabas@oracle.com>
To: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, arnd@arndb.de,
	bobo.shaobowang@huawei.com, rdunlap@infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 3/3] misc/pvpanic: add PCI driver
Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2021 20:02:14 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <91231b60-d559-5d1e-aff8-303fefc1f25e@oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YFDq5Wj4AQOm/Bm4@kroah.com>

La 16.03.2021 19:29, Greg KH a scris:
> On Tue, Mar 16, 2021 at 07:08:38PM +0200, Mihai Carabas wrote:
>> ..snip..
>>>> +};
>>>> +static unsigned int capability = PVPANIC_PANICKED | PVPANIC_CRASH_LOADED;
>>>> +static unsigned int events;
>>>> +
>>>> +static ssize_t capability_show(struct device *dev,
>>>> +			       struct device_attribute *attr, char *buf)
>>>> +{
>>>> +	return sysfs_emit(buf, "%x\n", capability);
>>> A global capability for all devices?  No, this needs to be a per-device
>>> attttribute as you are showing it to userspace as such.
>> We can only have a pvpanic-pci device. This is necessary in that case?
> Why would it not be?  Why constrain yourself to something that someone
> will only have to fix sometime in the future?

Agree. But why this got in in Jan2021 for pvpanic-mmio.c (ex. pvpanic.c) 
like this :)?


  reply	other threads:[~2021-03-16 18:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-03-16 12:20 [PATCH v5] add support for pci in the pvpanic driver Mihai Carabas
2021-03-16 12:20 ` [PATCH v5 1/3] misc/pvpanic: split-up generic and platform dependent code Mihai Carabas
2021-03-16 16:44   ` Greg KH
2021-03-16 12:20 ` [PATCH v5 2/3] misc/pvpanic: probe multiple instances Mihai Carabas
2021-03-16 16:46   ` Greg KH
2021-03-16 12:20 ` [PATCH v5 3/3] misc/pvpanic: add PCI driver Mihai Carabas
2021-03-16 16:48   ` Greg KH
2021-03-16 17:08     ` Mihai Carabas
2021-03-16 17:29       ` Greg KH
2021-03-16 18:02         ` Mihai Carabas [this message]
2021-03-16 18:16           ` Greg KH
2021-03-17  0:02   ` kernel test robot

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