Re: [PATCH v5 03/11] drivers: base: add cpu_device_create to support per-cpu devices

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

On Tue, Sep 30, 2014 at 02:48:24PM +0100, Sudeep Holla wrote:
> This patch adds a new function to create per-cpu devices.
> This helps in:
> 1. reusing the device infrastructure to create any cpu related
>    attributes and corresponding sysfs instead of creating and
>    dealing with raw kobjects directly
> 2. retaining the legacy path(/sys/devices/system/cpu/..) to support
>    existing sysfs ABI
> 3. avoiding to create links in the bus directory pointing to the
>    device as there would be per-cpu instance of these devices with
>    the same name since dev->bus is not populated to cpu_sysbus on
>    purpose
> 
> Signed-off-by: Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@xxxxxxx>
> Tested-by: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: David Herrmann <dh.herrmann@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Kay Sievers <kay@xxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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