[PATCH] staging: fbtft: replace __ATTR() with DEVICE_ATTR()

Aishwarya Pant aishpant at gmail.com
Thu Dec 14 06:21:17 UTC 2017


On Wed, Dec 13, 2017 at 12:50:00PM +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 11, 2017 at 03:24:30PM +0530, Aishwarya Pant wrote:
> > This is a clean-up patch which replaces the uses of raw __ATTR(...)
> > macro with the more conventional DEVICE_ATTR(...) for defining device
> > attributes.
> > 
> > Done using coccinelle-
> > 
> > @r@
> > identifier foo, n;
> > @@
> > 
> > struct device_attribute foo =  __ATTR(n, ...);
> > 
> > @script:python p@
> > id;
> > foo << r.foo;
> > n << r.n;
> > @@
> > 
> > // standardise the variable name to dev_attr_{name}
> > coccinelle.id = "dev_attr_" + n
> > 
> > @@
> > identifier r.foo;
> > declarer name DEVICE_ATTR;
> > @@
> > 
> > //change definition
> > - struct device_attribute foo = __ATTR
> > + DEVICE_ATTR
> > 	(...);
> > 
> > @depends on r@
> > identifier r.foo, p.id;
> > @@
> > 
> > // replace usages everywhere
> > - foo
> > + id
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Aishwarya Pant <aishpant at gmail.com>
> > ---
> >  drivers/staging/fbtft/fbtft-sysfs.c | 7 +++----
> >  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/drivers/staging/fbtft/fbtft-sysfs.c b/drivers/staging/fbtft/fbtft-sysfs.c
> > index 712096659aa0..506d604d01bb 100644
> > --- a/drivers/staging/fbtft/fbtft-sysfs.c
> > +++ b/drivers/staging/fbtft/fbtft-sysfs.c
> > @@ -197,19 +197,18 @@ static ssize_t show_debug(struct device *device,
> >  	return snprintf(buf, PAGE_SIZE, "%lu\n", par->debug);
> >  }
> >  
> > -static struct device_attribute debug_device_attr =
> > -	__ATTR(debug, 0660, show_debug, store_debug);
> > +static DEVICE_ATTR(debug, 0660, show_debug, store_debug);
> 
> This should be DEVICE_ATTR_RW(), right?  0660 makes no sense...

If it doesn't make sense here, I can replace it with DEVICE_ATTR_RW.
Though, 0660 has more open permissions than 0644.

> 
> thanks,
> 
> greg k-h


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