Re: [BONUS PATCH 2/2] base: core: WARN() about bogus permissions ondevice attributes

From: Felipe Balbi
Date: Tue Feb 19 2013 - 04:59:30 EST


Hi,

On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 09:20:10PM +0200, Felipe Balbi wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 11:17:19AM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 09:09:04PM +0200, Felipe Balbi wrote:
> > > Whenever a struct device_attribute is registered
> > > with mismatched permissions - read permission without
> > > a show routine or write permission without store
> > > routine - we will issue a big warning so we catch
> > > those early enough.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Felipe Balbi <balbi@xxxxxx>
> > > ---
> > >
> > > This is completely untested. I have only compile tested
> > > to make sure I'm not breaking anything.
> > >
> > > Greg, do you think this would be nice to have ? I could
> > > fire up kvm tomorrow and run on a few of my OMAP-based
> > > boards to make sure it works as expected.
> >
> > Looks good, but you better fix up all of the big offenders that this
> > points out, before I apply it, otherwise we will get a ton of bug
> > reports :)
>
> sure, will do that tomorrow though ;-)

Just tested $SUBJECT and it didn't trigger any extra warnings. Only the
one whose fix you already applied (I reverted it to make sure $SUBJECT
was working as expected).

--
balbi

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