Re: [PATCH 14/34] sysfs, kernfs: prepare read path for kernfs

From: Pavel Machek
Date: Sat Oct 26 2013 - 07:32:30 EST


Hi!

> We're in the process of separating out core sysfs functionality into
> kernfs which will deal with sysfs_dirents directly. This patch
> rearranges read path so that the kernfs and sysfs parts are separate.

> +static int sysfs_kf_seq_show(struct seq_file *sf, void *v)
> {
> struct sysfs_open_file *of = sf->private;
> struct kobject *kobj = of->sd->s_parent->priv;
> - const struct sysfs_ops *ops;
> + const struct sysfs_ops *ops = sysfs_file_ops(of->sd);
> + ssize_t count = 0;
> char *buf;
> - ssize_t count;
>
> /* acquire buffer and ensure that it's >= PAGE_SIZE */
> count = seq_get_buf(sf, &buf);

Initing count to zero is superfluous here.

> + /* the same behavior as single_open() */
> + return NULL + !*ppos;
> +}

That's certainly interesting code.

Pavel
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