[PATCH 0/3] move visorbus out of staging to drivers/virt/visorbus

Greg KH gregkh at linuxfoundation.org
Tue Jun 6 14:54:30 UTC 2017


On Tue, Jun 06, 2017 at 04:53:22PM +0200, Greg KH wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 06, 2017 at 04:49:09PM +0200, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Mon, Jun 05, 2017 at 04:07:29PM -0400, David Kershner wrote:
> > > This patchset moves drivers/staging/unisys/include to
> > > include/linux/visorbus, and moves drivers/staging/unisys/visorbus to
> > > drivers/virt/visorbus.
> > 
> > Um, are you thinking it is ready to be moved?  Have you asked for
> > another review?
> > 
> > In a totally random chance, I was doing some driver core work today and
> > I noticed that in drivers/staging/unisys/visorbus/visorbus_main.c, you
> > have 2 tabs for your 'struct attribute' variables, which is really odd.
> > 
> > Also, you should be using the ATTRIBUTE_GROUPS() macro for them instead
> > of having to "open code" the struct attribute_group lists.
> > 
> > So either you all have horrible luck in that I just happened to find the
> > only remaining problem, or that you should proabably ask for a good code
> > audit, I haven't looked at the code before today since the last round of
> > "fun" I found in just one other random file :)
> 
> Also, many of the attribute callbacks in that file seem to all have
> their leading '{' in the wrong place.  Odd that checkpatch.pl doesn't
> catch that...
> 
> partition_handle_show() is one such example that is obviously wrong.
> 
> There's also one checkpatch.pl warning for it, which should probably be
> resolved as well.

drivers/staging/unisys/visorbus/visorbus_main.c:1035: WARNING: Prefer using '"%s...", __func__' to using 'create_bus_instance', this function's name, in a string

to be specific, something you should have caught, right?

Are you sure this is ready to be moved out of staging?  :(

greg k-h


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