On Sun, Jun 05, 2005 at 08:09:01PM +0200, Jean Delvare wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have been modifying three additional hardware monitoring drivers to
> take benefit of Yani Ioannou's new, extended sysfs callbacks. These
> drivers are lm63, lm83 and lm90. All of these are relatively small when
> compared to the first two modified drivers (adm1026 and it87). My goal
> was to demonstrate that the new callbacks can also be used in small
> drivers, with significant benefits. The result is even smaller drivers
> (less memory used when loaded), relying far less on macros, which makes
> the code easier to read (and the drivers presumably faster to distribute
> using distcc).
>
> Module Before After
> lm63 10128 9424 ( -704/ -6%)
> lm83 8784 6864 (-1920/-21%)
> lm90 12420 10628 (-1792/-14%)
>
> Individual patches will follow. Comments welcome. Greg, can you add
> these to one of your trees?
Applied, thanks.
> Before I go on with driver conversion, there are two points I'd like to
> discuss:
>
> First, I don't much like the name of the new header file,
> linux/i2c-sysfs.h. It isn't related with i2c at all! It's all about
> sensors (or hardware monitoring if you prefer). I think the header file
> should be named linux/hwmon-sysfs.h or something similar.
Sure, that would be fine.
> Second, is there a reason why the SENSOR_DEVICE_ATTR macro creates a
> stucture named sensor_dev_attr_##_name rather than simply
> dev_attr_##_name? As it seems unlikely that SENSOR_DEVICE_ATTR and
> DEVICE_ATTR will both be called for the same file, going for the short
> form shouldn't cause any problem. This would make the calling code more
> readable IMHO.
Hm, I really don't care either way about this.
thanks,
greg k-h
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