Hi, On Monday 25 April 2005 00:36, Yani Ioannou wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm sending this driver sysfs callback patch to the lm-sensors list to > get more of the sensor driver maintainer's comments on the patch > (specifically the type to be associated with each sysfs entry) before > submitting to LKML. Jean and Greg have already given me invaluable > feedback and are supportive of the general idea of the patch (the > problem of which is epitomized by the kludge the 2.6 bmcsensors driver > is at the moment - see previous discussions in the list archive). > > Included is a patch against drivers/base/core.c and > include/linux/driver.h that adds a void * to the device attribute > struct and passes it back to the two sysfs callbacks show/store. If void is added directly to the attribute structure that means that same attribute can not be shared between several instances of the same device -> unexpected. So far all attributes could be statically created. -- Dmitry
