Re: [PATCH] ALSA: aoa: convert bus code to use dev_groups

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At Thu, 28 May 2015 16:43:12 +0200,
Quentin Lambert wrote:
> 
> On 28/05/2015 16:09, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> > At Thu, 28 May 2015 15:59:50 +0200,
> > Quentin Lambert wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >> On 28/05/2015 15:52, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> >>> At Thu, 28 May 2015 14:48:27 +0200,
> >>> Quentin Lambert wrote:
> >>>> You should use dev_groups instead of the dev_attrs field of struct
> >>>> bus_type. This converts the MDIO bus code to use the correct field.
> >>>>
> >>>> These modifications were made using Coccinelle.
> >>>>
> >>>> Signed-off-by: Quentin Lambert <lambert.quentin@xxxxxxxxx>
> >>> What's wrong with dev_attrs?
> >>> (Not offending, I'm just curious where the preference for dev_groups
> >>>    is referred...)
> >> This patch is based on commit 4192c74940e23da727eb02b7b4ee779dde2f670,
> >> its message indicates that dev_attrs is going away.
> > OK, makes sense.  Then please keep such information in the changelog.
> > BTW, the code in question isn't MDIO at all.
> Sorry, about that!
> >
> > Also, it'd be better to move ATTRIBUTE_GROUPS(soundbus_dev) into
> > soundbus/sysfs.c, and make it this global instead of
> > soundbus_dev_attrs[].
> Ok, I need to find a nice way to do that because ATTRIBUTE_GROUPS 
> declares the
> structure as static.

Ah, right.  I fell to the same pintfall in the past, too :)

>I will send a second version with a better solution.

If it results in an ungly code, it's fine with the original code,
too.  But, maybe with a comment indicating that xxx_dev_attrs[] is
defined in xxx.c.


thanks,

Takashi
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