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

From: Felipe Balbi
Date: Mon Feb 18 2013 - 14:20:30 EST


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 ;-)

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balbi

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