Re: [PATCH] driver-core: fix DEVICE_INT_ATTR to use correctshow/store functions

[Michael Davidson]

I found the problem while porting some code to 3.3.

It looks as if the mce driver uses int attributes for a few things so I assume
that is broken but I have not actually verified it.

thanks,

md

On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 4:32 PM, Greg KH <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, May 03, 2012 at 04:19:02PM -0700, Michael Davidson wrote:
>> [PATCH] driver-core: fix DEVICE_INT_ATTR to use correct show/store functions
>
> This line isn't needed again in the patch body like this :(
>
>> DEVICE_INT_ATTR() should use device_show_int() and device_store_int()
>> not device_show_ulong() and device_store_ulong()
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Michael Davidson <md@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Is this something that fixes a problem you have seen, so it needs to go
> in now, and backported to stable kernel releases, or can it wait for 3.5
> and you found it just by looking at the code?
>
> thanks,
>
> greg k-h
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