Darrick J. Wong wrote: > New driver to read energy, power, and temperature meters in various > IBM System X hardware. <snip> > +/* sysfs support functions */ > +/* Discover sensors on an AEM device */ > +#define AEM_FIND_SENSORS(type) \ > +static int type##_find_sensors(struct type##_data *data) \ > +{ \ > + struct aem_ro_sensor_template *ro; \ > + struct aem_rw_sensor_template *rw; \ > + int err, idx; \ > +\ > + /* Set up read-only sensors */ \ > + ro = type##_ro_sensors; \ > + idx = 0; \ > + while (ro->label) { \ > + data->sensors[idx].dev_attr.attr.name = ro->label; \ > + data->sensors[idx].dev_attr.attr.mode = S_IRUGO; \ > + data->sensors[idx].dev_attr.show = ro->show; \ > + data->sensors[idx].index = ro->index; \ > +\ > + err = device_create_file(&data->fw.pdev->dev, \ > + &data->sensors[idx].dev_attr); \ > + if (err) { \ > + data->sensors[idx].dev_attr.attr.name = NULL; \ > + goto exit_remove; \ > + } \ > + idx++; \ > + ro++; \ > + } \ > +\ > + /* Set up read-write sensors */ \ > + rw = type##_rw_sensors; \ > + while (rw->label) { \ > + data->sensors[idx].dev_attr.attr.name = rw->label; \ > + data->sensors[idx].dev_attr.attr.mode = S_IRUGO | S_IWUSR; \ > + data->sensors[idx].dev_attr.show = rw->show; \ > + data->sensors[idx].dev_attr.store = rw->set; \ > + data->sensors[idx].index = rw->index; \ > +\ > + err = device_create_file(&data->fw.pdev->dev, \ > + &data->sensors[idx].dev_attr); \ > + if (err) { \ > + data->sensors[idx].dev_attr.attr.name = NULL; \ > + goto exit_remove; \ > + } \ > + idx++; \ > + rw++; \ > + } \ > +\ > + err = device_create_file(&data->fw.pdev->dev, \ > + &sensor_dev_attr_name.dev_attr); \ > + if (err) \ > + goto exit_remove; \ > +\ > + return 0; \ > +\ > +exit_remove: \ > + type##_remove_sensors(data); \ > + return err; \ > +} It really shouldn't be necessary to have all of these macro functions. In this above macro, you would just have to pass the ro and rw structures along with a remove function pointer. Since all of your types have common members, you could just have a common substructure and pass that around. Regards, Anthony Liguori