Re: [PATCH v1 4/5] staging: fieldbus core: add support for FL-NET devices

[Greg KH]

On Wed, Sep 18, 2019 at 02:35:51PM -0400, Sven Van Asbroeck wrote:
> Add the FL-NET device type to the fieldbus core.

What does this mean?

> 
> Signed-off-by: Sven Van Asbroeck <TheSven73@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  .../fieldbus/Documentation/ABI/sysfs-class-fieldbus-dev        | 1 +
>  drivers/staging/fieldbus/dev_core.c                            | 3 +++
>  drivers/staging/fieldbus/fieldbus_dev.h                        | 1 +
>  3 files changed, 5 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/fieldbus/Documentation/ABI/sysfs-class-fieldbus-dev b/drivers/staging/fieldbus/Documentation/ABI/sysfs-class-fieldbus-dev
> index 439f14d33c3b..233c418016aa 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/fieldbus/Documentation/ABI/sysfs-class-fieldbus-dev
> +++ b/drivers/staging/fieldbus/Documentation/ABI/sysfs-class-fieldbus-dev
> @@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ Description:
>  		Possible values:
>  			'unknown'
>  			'profinet'
> +			'flnet'
>  
>  What:		/sys/class/fieldbus_dev/fieldbus_devX/fieldbus_id
>  KernelVersion:	5.1 (staging)
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/fieldbus/dev_core.c b/drivers/staging/fieldbus/dev_core.c
> index 9903c4f3cba9..7e9405e52f19 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/fieldbus/dev_core.c
> +++ b/drivers/staging/fieldbus/dev_core.c
> @@ -113,6 +113,9 @@ static ssize_t fieldbus_type_show(struct device *dev,
>  	case FIELDBUS_DEV_TYPE_PROFINET:
>  		t = "profinet";
>  		break;
> +	case FIELDBUS_DEV_TYPE_FLNET:
> +		t = "flnet";
> +		break;
>  	default:
>  		t = "unknown";
>  		break;
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/fieldbus/fieldbus_dev.h b/drivers/staging/fieldbus/fieldbus_dev.h
> index 3b00315600e5..f775546b3404 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/fieldbus/fieldbus_dev.h
> +++ b/drivers/staging/fieldbus/fieldbus_dev.h
> @@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ struct fieldbus_dev_config;
>  enum fieldbus_dev_type {
>  	FIELDBUS_DEV_TYPE_UNKNOWN = 0,
>  	FIELDBUS_DEV_TYPE_PROFINET,
> +	FIELDBUS_DEV_TYPE_FLNET

You add an unspecified enumerated type and suddenly new hardware starts
working?  That feels really wrong to me...

greg k-h