Re: [2/2] ext4: Provide separate operations for sysfs feature files

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On Tue, Sep 09, 2014 at 01:32:20PM +0200, Lukas Czerner wrote:
> Currently sysfs feature files uses ext4_attr_ops as the file operations
> to show/store data. However the feature files is not supposed to contain
> any data at all, the sole existence of the file means that the module
> support the feature. Moreover, none of the sysfs feature attributes
> actually register show/store functions so that would not be a problem.
> 
> However if a sysfs feature attribute register a show or store function
> we might be in trouble because the kobject in this case is _not_ embedded
> in the ext4_sb_info structure as ext4_attr_show/store expect.
> 
> So just to be safe, provide separate empty sysfs_ops to use in
> ext4_feat_ktype. This might safe us from potential problems in the
> future. As a bonus we can "store" something more descriptive than
> nothing in the files, so let it contain "enabled" to make it clear that
> the feature is really present in the module.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Lukas Czerner <lczerner@xxxxxxxxxx>

Applied, thanks.

					- Ted
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