Subject: Re: [PATCH] [3/4] PMC-related cleanups

From: Greg KH <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2007 14:32:04 -0800

On Thu, Jan 25, 2007 at 02:20:02AM -0600, Olof Johansson wrote:
> Introduce _SYSDEV_ATTR(), to be used to just define the struct, and not a
> named variable with the attribute. Useful for arrays of sysdev_attributes.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Olof Johansson <[email-masked]>
> 
> 
> Index: powerpc/include/linux/sysdev.h
> ===================================================================
> --- powerpc.orig/include/linux/sysdev.h
> +++ powerpc/include/linux/sysdev.h
> @@ -98,12 +98,15 @@ struct sysdev_attribute { 
>  };
>  
>  
> -#define SYSDEV_ATTR(_name,_mode,_show,_store) 		\
> -struct sysdev_attribute attr_##_name = { 			\
> +#define _SYSDEV_ATTR(_name,_mode,_show,_store)			\
> +{								\
>  	.attr = {.name = __stringify(_name), .mode = _mode },	\
>  	.show	= _show,					\
>  	.store	= _store,					\
> -};
> +}

Oops, you need to add '.owner' to that attribute structure.  In all
fairness, it's a bug, not caused by anything that you did.

If you add that, feel free to add my:
	Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email-masked]>

to the patch and send it through Paul.

thanks,

greg k-h