Re: [RFC] support for sysfs string based properties for SCSI (1/3)

From: Mike Anderson (andmike@us.ibm.com)
Date: Mon May 05 2003 - 15:08:07 EST


Greg KH [greg@kroah.com] wrote:
> On Mon, May 05, 2003 at 12:08:35PM -0500, James Bottomley wrote:
> > On Mon, 2003-05-05 at 12:02, Greg KH wrote:
> > > On Sat, May 03, 2003 at 02:19:23PM -0500, James Bottomley wrote:
> > > > diff -Nru a/drivers/base/core.c b/drivers/base/core.c
> > > > --- a/drivers/base/core.c Sat May 3 14:18:21 2003
> > > > +++ b/drivers/base/core.c Sat May 3 14:18:21 2003
> > > > @@ -42,6 +42,8 @@
> > > >
> > > > if (dev_attr->show)
> > > > ret = dev_attr->show(dev,buf);
> > > > + else if (dev->bus->show)
> > > > + ret = dev->bus->show(dev, buf, attr);
> > > > return ret;
> > >
> > > Can't you do this by using the class interface instead?
> >
> > I don't know, I haven't digested the class interface patches yet, since
> > they just appeared this morning.
>
> I think Mike has a patch queued up that takes advantage of the class
> code, which might address all of these issues. Mike?
>

The patches I sent add class support for scsi_host, but this only gives
granularity of attributes specific to scsi_host. There is no built in
functionality to override show or store handler functions.

-andmike

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Michael Anderson
andmike@us.ibm.com

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