[dm-devel] Re: [PATCH 1/3] sysfs representation of stacked devices (common) (rev.2)

[Jun'ichi Nomura]

Hi Greg,

Thank you for the comments.

Greg KH wrote:
>>+static inline struct kobject *add_dir(struct kobject *parent, const char *name)
>>+{
>>+	struct kobject *k;
>>+
>>+	if (!parent)
>>+		return NULL;
>>+
>>+	k = kmalloc(sizeof(*k), GFP_KERNEL);
>>+	if (!k)
>>+		return NULL;
>>+
>>+	memset(k, 0, sizeof(*k));
>>+	k->parent = parent;
>>+	k->ktype = &dir_ktype;
>>+	kobject_set_name(k, name);
>>+	kobject_register(k);
>>+
>>+	return k;
>>+}
> 
> This code looks good enough that we should add it to the core kobject
> code, don't you think?  Also, you might use kzalloc instead of kmalloc
> here.

Yes, it would be nice if kobject core has this function.
I'll move them to lib/kobject.c.

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Jun'ichi Nomura, NEC Solutions (America), Inc.