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Re: [PATCH] net: chelsio: cxgb3: constify attribute_group structures.

From Arvind Yadav <arvind.yadav.cs@gmail.com>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH] net: chelsio: cxgb3: constify attribute_group structures.
Date 2017-07-11 08:00 +0200
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Hi Joe,


On Tuesday 11 July 2017 11:17 AM, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Tue, 2017-07-11 at 11:11 +0530, Arvind Yadav wrote:
>> Hi Joe,
>>
>>
>> On Monday 10 July 2017 10:30 PM, Joe Perches wrote:
>>> On Mon, 2017-07-10 at 16:04 +0530, Arvind Yadav wrote:
>>>> attribute_groups are not supposed to change at runtime. All functions
>>>> working with attribute_groups provided by <linux/sysfs.h> work
>>>> with const attribute_group. So mark the non-const structs as const.
>>> I think it's good you are doing all of these.
>>>
>>> Instead of individually sending these patches, could you
>>> please send a patch series for all of these attribute_group
>>> patches with a cover letter at the same time?
>>>
>>> That could make it easier for a trivial maintainer to apply
>>> all of these at once and not get some applied and others
>>> ignored or dropped on the floor.
>>>
>> Once again, I will send all of patch together, But I have doubt. If it's
>> having
>> different maintainer. Example- 'net:' subsystem is having a different
>> different
>> maintainer. So do i need to add all the maintainer in single list. Which
>> can confuse
>> what patch is for what maintainer. Please suggest me.
> Please send individual patches, one per maintainer/subsystem
> as a series with a cover letter like:
>
> 	[PATCH 0/N] treewide: constify attribute_group structures
> 	[PATCH 1/N] chelsio: cxgb3: constify attribute_group
> 	[PATCH 2/N] chelsio: cxgb4: constify attribute_group
> 	...
> 	[PATCH N/N] subsystem: constify attribute_group
>
Thank you, I will follow as per your suggestion.

Regards,
~arvind

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[PATCH] net: chelsio: cxgb3: constify attribute_group structures. Arvind Yadav <arvind.yadav.cs@gmail.com> - 2017-07-10 12:40 +0200
  Re: [PATCH] net: chelsio: cxgb3: constify attribute_group  structures. Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> - 2017-07-10 19:10 +0200
    Re: [PATCH] net: chelsio: cxgb3: constify attribute_group  structures. Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> - 2017-07-11 07:50 +0200
      Re: [PATCH] net: chelsio: cxgb3: constify attribute_group structures. Arvind Yadav <arvind.yadav.cs@gmail.com> - 2017-07-11 08:00 +0200
    Re: [PATCH] net: chelsio: cxgb3: constify attribute_group structures. Arvind Yadav <arvind.yadav.cs@gmail.com> - 2017-07-11 07:50 +0200

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