Re: [PATCH 1/4] sysfs: Support is_visible() on binary attributes

From: Greg KH
Date: Sun Oct 04 2015 - 14:34:22 EST


On Mon, Sep 21, 2015 at 10:38:20AM -0300, Emilio López wrote:
> According to the sysfs header file:
>
> "The returned value will replace static permissions defined in
> struct attribute or struct bin_attribute."
>
> but this isn't the case, as is_visible is only called on struct attribute
> only. This patch introduces a new is_bin_visible() function to implement
> the same functionality for binary attributes, and updates documentation
> accordingly.
>
> Note that to keep functionality and code similar to that of normal
> attributes, the mode is now checked as well to ensure it contains only
> read/write permissions or SYSFS_PREALLOC.
>
> Reviewed-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Emilio López <emilio.lopez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

As this should probably go through the "platform drivers" maintainer,
I'll just give you this:

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

So it can go through their tree and not require me to just take this
one.

thanks,

greg k-h
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