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

["Jun'ichi Nomura" <j-nomura@ce.jp.nec.com>]

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.

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