Re: [PATCH v5] soc: qcom: Add SoC info driver

[Bjorn Andersson]

On Mon 12 Dec 07:14 PST 2016, Imran Khan wrote:

> On 12/5/2016 11:35 PM, Bjorn Andersson wrote:
[..]
> > 
> > Rather than having this based on two huge macros take a look at
> > DEVICE_INT_ATTR() and struct dev_ext_attribute in
> > include/linux/device.h. It looks like if you just put the index in a
> > struct and use container_of to reach that you can replace these with
> > direct functions.
> > 
> > Also, it's perfectly fine to always specify a store operation and use
> > 0444 vs 0644 to control it's availability. So you don't need two sets if
> > you just expose the mode in your macro.
> >
> 
> If I understood this correct, the main idea here is to use dev_ext_attribute
> and avoid wrapper macros. Have tried to implement this suggestion in the 
> subsequent patch set. Please let me know if it looks okay or can be improved
> further. 
>  

Not necessarily using dev_ext_attribute directly, but using the same
design (a struct and container_of) allows you do parameterize these
functions.

Looking forward to v6.

Regards,
Bjorn