Re: [PATCH 1/3] add a private data field within kobj_attributestructure (final#2)

From: Greg KH
Date: Mon Feb 25 2008 - 01:49:39 EST


On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 03:10:27PM +0900, Kohei KaiGai wrote:
> [PATCH 1/3] add a private data field within kobj_attribute structure.
>
> This patch add a private data field, declared as void *, within kobj_attribute
> structure. The _show() and _store() method in the sysfs attribute entries can
> refer this information to identify what entry is accessed.
> It makes easier to share a single method implementation with several similar
> entries, like ones to export the list of capabilities the running kernel
> supports.
>
> Signed-off-by: KaiGai Kohei <kaigai@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> --
> Documentation/kobject.txt | 6 ++++++

That's good, but you didn't modify the sample/kobject/ file to use the
new void pointer, instead of the strcmp() call.

thanks,

greg k-h
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