bonding sysfs output

bonding sysfs output

[Wagner Ferenc]

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Hi,

Am I totally of the limit with the attached patch against
drivers/net/bonding/bond_sysfs.c?  I'd like to receive some comments,
as I'm not a kernel developer.

I propose it as a fix for trailing NULs and spaces like eg.

$ od -c /sys/class/net/bond0/bonding/slaves 
0000000   e   t   h   -   l   e   f   t       e   t   h   -   r   i   g
0000020   h   t      \n  \0
0000025

I'm afraid there're other problems with "++more++" handling, but let's
not consider those just yet.  Find the patch attached.  The first
hunks also renames buffer to buf, for consistency's shake.

The original version had varying behaviour for Not Applicable cases.
This patch also settles for empty files (not even a line feed) in
those cases, but I'm not sure about the general policy on this matter.

Regards,
Feri.


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--- bond_sysfs.c.orig	2007-11-16 19:14:27.000000000 +0100
+++ bond_sysfs.c	2007-11-25 16:01:23.092973099 +0100
@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@
  * "show" function for the bond_masters attribute.
  * The class parameter is ignored.
  */
-static ssize_t bonding_show_bonds(struct class *cls, char *buffer)
+static ssize_t bonding_show_bonds(struct class *cls, char *buf)
 {
 	int res = 0;
 	struct bonding *bond;
@@ -86,14 +86,13 @@
 			/* not enough space for another interface name */
 			if ((PAGE_SIZE - res) > 10)
 				res = PAGE_SIZE - 10;
-			res += sprintf(buffer + res, "++more++");
+			res += sprintf(buf + res, "++more++ ");
 			break;
 		}
-		res += sprintf(buffer + res, "%s ",
+		res += sprintf(buf + res, "%s ",
 			       bond->dev->name);
 	}
-	res += sprintf(buffer + res, "\n");
-	res++;
+	if (res) buf[res-1] = '\n'; /* eat the leftover space */
 	up_read(&(bonding_rwsem));
 	return res;
 }
@@ -237,14 +236,13 @@
 			/* not enough space for another interface name */
 			if ((PAGE_SIZE - res) > 10)
 				res = PAGE_SIZE - 10;
-			res += sprintf(buf + res, "++more++");
+			res += sprintf(buf + res, "++more++ ");
 			break;
 		}
 		res += sprintf(buf + res, "%s ", slave->dev->name);
 	}
 	read_unlock_bh(&bond->lock);
-	res += sprintf(buf + res, "\n");
-	res++;
+	if (res) buf[res-1] = '\n'; /* eat the leftover space */
 	return res;
 }
 
@@ -401,7 +399,7 @@
 
 	return sprintf(buf, "%s %d\n",
 			bond_mode_tbl[bond->params.mode].modename,
-			bond->params.mode) + 1;
+			bond->params.mode);
 }
 
 static ssize_t bonding_store_mode(struct device *d,
@@ -452,17 +450,14 @@
 				      struct device_attribute *attr,
 				      char *buf)
 {
-	int count;
+	int count = 0;
 	struct bonding *bond = to_bond(d);
 
-	if ((bond->params.mode != BOND_MODE_XOR) &&
-	    (bond->params.mode != BOND_MODE_8023AD)) {
-		// Not Applicable
-		count = sprintf(buf, "NA\n") + 1;
-	} else {
+	if ((bond->params.mode == BOND_MODE_XOR) ||
+	    (bond->params.mode == BOND_MODE_8023AD)) {
 		count = sprintf(buf, "%s %d\n",
 			xmit_hashtype_tbl[bond->params.xmit_policy].modename,
-			bond->params.xmit_policy) + 1;
+			bond->params.xmit_policy);
 	}
 
 	return count;
@@ -522,7 +517,7 @@
 
 	return sprintf(buf, "%s %d\n",
 		       arp_validate_tbl[bond->params.arp_validate].modename,
-		       bond->params.arp_validate) + 1;
+		       bond->params.arp_validate);
 }
 
 static ssize_t bonding_store_arp_validate(struct device *d,
@@ -574,7 +569,7 @@
 {
 	struct bonding *bond = to_bond(d);
 
-	return sprintf(buf, "%d\n", bond->params.arp_interval) + 1;
+	return sprintf(buf, "%d\n", bond->params.arp_interval);
 }
 
 static ssize_t bonding_store_arp_interval(struct device *d,
@@ -671,10 +666,7 @@
 			res += sprintf(buf + res, "%u.%u.%u.%u ",
 			       NIPQUAD(bond->params.arp_targets[i]));
 	}
-	if (res)
-		res--;  /* eat the leftover space */
-	res += sprintf(buf + res, "\n");
-	res++;
+	if (res) buf[res-1] = '\n'; /* eat the leftover space */
 	return res;
 }
 
@@ -775,7 +767,7 @@
 {
 	struct bonding *bond = to_bond(d);
 
-	return sprintf(buf, "%d\n", bond->params.downdelay * bond->params.miimon) + 1;
+	return sprintf(buf, "%d\n", bond->params.downdelay * bond->params.miimon);
 }
 
 static ssize_t bonding_store_downdelay(struct device *d,
@@ -832,7 +824,7 @@
 {
 	struct bonding *bond = to_bond(d);
 
-	return sprintf(buf, "%d\n", bond->params.updelay * bond->params.miimon) + 1;
+	return sprintf(buf, "%d\n", bond->params.updelay * bond->params.miimon);
 
 }
 
@@ -896,7 +888,7 @@
 
 	return sprintf(buf, "%s %d\n",
 		bond_lacp_tbl[bond->params.lacp_fast].modename,
-		bond->params.lacp_fast) + 1;
+		bond->params.lacp_fast);
 }
 
 static ssize_t bonding_store_lacp(struct device *d,
@@ -952,7 +944,7 @@
 {
 	struct bonding *bond = to_bond(d);
 
-	return sprintf(buf, "%d\n", bond->params.miimon) + 1;
+	return sprintf(buf, "%d\n", bond->params.miimon);
 }
 
 static ssize_t bonding_store_miimon(struct device *d,
@@ -1053,9 +1045,7 @@
 	struct bonding *bond = to_bond(d);
 
 	if (bond->primary_slave)
-		count = sprintf(buf, "%s\n", bond->primary_slave->dev->name) + 1;
-	else
-		count = sprintf(buf, "\n") + 1;
+		count = sprintf(buf, "%s\n", bond->primary_slave->dev->name);
 
 	return count;
 }
@@ -1116,7 +1106,7 @@
 {
 	struct bonding *bond = to_bond(d);
 
-	return sprintf(buf, "%d\n", bond->params.use_carrier) + 1;
+	return sprintf(buf, "%d\n", bond->params.use_carrier);
 }
 
 static ssize_t bonding_store_carrier(struct device *d,
@@ -1158,7 +1148,7 @@
 {
 	struct slave *curr;
 	struct bonding *bond = to_bond(d);
-	int count;
+	int count = 0;
 
 
 	read_lock(&bond->curr_slave_lock);
@@ -1166,9 +1156,7 @@
 	read_unlock(&bond->curr_slave_lock);
 
 	if (USES_PRIMARY(bond->params.mode) && curr)
-		count = sprintf(buf, "%s\n", curr->dev->name) + 1;
-	else
-		count = sprintf(buf, "\n") + 1;
+		count = sprintf(buf, "%s\n", curr->dev->name);
 	return count;
 }
 
@@ -1259,7 +1247,7 @@
 	curr = bond->curr_active_slave;
 	read_unlock(&bond->curr_slave_lock);
 
-	return sprintf(buf, "%s\n", (curr) ? "up" : "down") + 1;
+	return sprintf(buf, "%s\n", (curr) ? "up" : "down");
 }
 static DEVICE_ATTR(mii_status, S_IRUGO, bonding_show_mii_status, NULL);
 
@@ -1276,10 +1264,8 @@
 
 	if (bond->params.mode == BOND_MODE_8023AD) {
 		struct ad_info ad_info;
-		count = sprintf(buf, "%d\n", (bond_3ad_get_active_agg_info(bond, &ad_info)) ?  0 : ad_info.aggregator_id) + 1;
+		count = sprintf(buf, "%d\n", (bond_3ad_get_active_agg_info(bond, &ad_info)) ?  0 : ad_info.aggregator_id);
 	}
-	else
-		count = sprintf(buf, "\n") + 1;
 
 	return count;
 }
@@ -1298,10 +1284,8 @@
 
 	if (bond->params.mode == BOND_MODE_8023AD) {
 		struct ad_info ad_info;
-		count = sprintf(buf, "%d\n", (bond_3ad_get_active_agg_info(bond, &ad_info)) ?  0: ad_info.ports) + 1;
+		count = sprintf(buf, "%d\n", (bond_3ad_get_active_agg_info(bond, &ad_info)) ?  0: ad_info.ports);
 	}
-	else
-		count = sprintf(buf, "\n") + 1;
 
 	return count;
 }
@@ -1320,10 +1304,8 @@
 
 	if (bond->params.mode == BOND_MODE_8023AD) {
 		struct ad_info ad_info;
-		count = sprintf(buf, "%d\n", (bond_3ad_get_active_agg_info(bond, &ad_info)) ?  0 : ad_info.actor_key) + 1;
+		count = sprintf(buf, "%d\n", (bond_3ad_get_active_agg_info(bond, &ad_info)) ?  0 : ad_info.actor_key);
 	}
-	else
-		count = sprintf(buf, "\n") + 1;
 
 	return count;
 }
@@ -1342,10 +1324,8 @@
 
 	if (bond->params.mode == BOND_MODE_8023AD) {
 		struct ad_info ad_info;
-		count = sprintf(buf, "%d\n", (bond_3ad_get_active_agg_info(bond, &ad_info)) ?  0 : ad_info.partner_key) + 1;
+		count = sprintf(buf, "%d\n", (bond_3ad_get_active_agg_info(bond, &ad_info)) ?  0 : ad_info.partner_key);
 	}
-	else
-		count = sprintf(buf, "\n") + 1;
 
 	return count;
 }
@@ -1371,11 +1351,9 @@
 				       ad_info.partner_system[2],
 				       ad_info.partner_system[3],
 				       ad_info.partner_system[4],
-				       ad_info.partner_system[5]) + 1;
+				       ad_info.partner_system[5]);
 		}
 	}
-	else
-		count = sprintf(buf, "\n") + 1;
 
 	return count;
 }

Re: bonding sysfs output

[Andrew Morton]

On Sun, 25 Nov 2007 16:12:57 +0100 Wagner Ferenc <wferi@niif.hu> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Am I totally of the limit with the attached patch against
> drivers/net/bonding/bond_sysfs.c?  I'd like to receive some comments,
> as I'm not a kernel developer.

Plese alwayts cc netdev@vger.kernel.org on networking-related matters.

> I propose it as a fix for trailing NULs and spaces like eg.
> 
> $ od -c /sys/class/net/bond0/bonding/slaves 
> 0000000   e   t   h   -   l   e   f   t       e   t   h   -   r   i   g
> 0000020   h   t      \n  \0
> 0000025
> 
> I'm afraid there're other problems with "++more++" handling, but let's
> not consider those just yet.  Find the patch attached.  The first
> hunks also renames buffer to buf, for consistency's shake.
> 
> The original version had varying behaviour for Not Applicable cases.
> This patch also settles for empty files (not even a line feed) in
> those cases, but I'm not sure about the general policy on this matter.
> 

hm, there are a lot of changes there.  Were they all actually needed to fix
the one bug which you have described?


--- bond_sysfs.c.orig	2007-11-16 19:14:27.000000000 +0100
+++ bond_sysfs.c	2007-11-25 16:01:23.092973099 +0100
@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@
  * "show" function for the bond_masters attribute.
  * The class parameter is ignored.
  */
-static ssize_t bonding_show_bonds(struct class *cls, char *buffer)
+static ssize_t bonding_show_bonds(struct class *cls, char *buf)
 {
 	int res = 0;
 	struct bonding *bond;
@@ -86,14 +86,13 @@
 			/* not enough space for another interface name */
 			if ((PAGE_SIZE - res) > 10)
 				res = PAGE_SIZE - 10;
-			res += sprintf(buffer + res, "++more++");
+			res += sprintf(buf + res, "++more++ ");
 			break;
 		}
-		res += sprintf(buffer + res, "%s ",
+		res += sprintf(buf + res, "%s ",
 			       bond->dev->name);
 	}
-	res += sprintf(buffer + res, "\n");
-	res++;
+	if (res) buf[res-1] = '\n'; /* eat the leftover space */
 	up_read(&(bonding_rwsem));
 	return res;
 }
@@ -237,14 +236,13 @@
 			/* not enough space for another interface name */
 			if ((PAGE_SIZE - res) > 10)
 				res = PAGE_SIZE - 10;
-			res += sprintf(buf + res, "++more++");
+			res += sprintf(buf + res, "++more++ ");
 			break;
 		}
 		res += sprintf(buf + res, "%s ", slave->dev->name);
 	}
 	read_unlock_bh(&bond->lock);
-	res += sprintf(buf + res, "\n");
-	res++;
+	if (res) buf[res-1] = '\n'; /* eat the leftover space */
 	return res;
 }
 
@@ -401,7 +399,7 @@
 
 	return sprintf(buf, "%s %d\n",
 			bond_mode_tbl[bond->params.mode].modename,
-			bond->params.mode) + 1;
+			bond->params.mode);
 }
 
 static ssize_t bonding_store_mode(struct device *d,
@@ -452,17 +450,14 @@
 				      struct device_attribute *attr,
 				      char *buf)
 {
-	int count;
+	int count = 0;
 	struct bonding *bond = to_bond(d);
 
-	if ((bond->params.mode != BOND_MODE_XOR) &&
-	    (bond->params.mode != BOND_MODE_8023AD)) {
-		// Not Applicable
-		count = sprintf(buf, "NA\n") + 1;
-	} else {
+	if ((bond->params.mode == BOND_MODE_XOR) ||
+	    (bond->params.mode == BOND_MODE_8023AD)) {
 		count = sprintf(buf, "%s %d\n",
 			xmit_hashtype_tbl[bond->params.xmit_policy].modename,
-			bond->params.xmit_policy) + 1;
+			bond->params.xmit_policy);
 	}
 
 	return count;
@@ -522,7 +517,7 @@
 
 	return sprintf(buf, "%s %d\n",
 		       arp_validate_tbl[bond->params.arp_validate].modename,
-		       bond->params.arp_validate) + 1;
+		       bond->params.arp_validate);
 }
 
 static ssize_t bonding_store_arp_validate(struct device *d,
@@ -574,7 +569,7 @@
 {
 	struct bonding *bond = to_bond(d);
 
-	return sprintf(buf, "%d\n", bond->params.arp_interval) + 1;
+	return sprintf(buf, "%d\n", bond->params.arp_interval);
 }
 
 static ssize_t bonding_store_arp_interval(struct device *d,
@@ -671,10 +666,7 @@
 			res += sprintf(buf + res, "%u.%u.%u.%u ",
 			       NIPQUAD(bond->params.arp_targets[i]));
 	}
-	if (res)
-		res--;  /* eat the leftover space */
-	res += sprintf(buf + res, "\n");
-	res++;
+	if (res) buf[res-1] = '\n'; /* eat the leftover space */
 	return res;
 }
 
@@ -775,7 +767,7 @@
 {
 	struct bonding *bond = to_bond(d);
 
-	return sprintf(buf, "%d\n", bond->params.downdelay * bond->params.miimon) + 1;
+	return sprintf(buf, "%d\n", bond->params.downdelay * bond->params.miimon);
 }
 
 static ssize_t bonding_store_downdelay(struct device *d,
@@ -832,7 +824,7 @@
 {
 	struct bonding *bond = to_bond(d);
 
-	return sprintf(buf, "%d\n", bond->params.updelay * bond->params.miimon) + 1;
+	return sprintf(buf, "%d\n", bond->params.updelay * bond->params.miimon);
 
 }
 
@@ -896,7 +888,7 @@
 
 	return sprintf(buf, "%s %d\n",
 		bond_lacp_tbl[bond->params.lacp_fast].modename,
-		bond->params.lacp_fast) + 1;
+		bond->params.lacp_fast);
 }
 
 static ssize_t bonding_store_lacp(struct device *d,
@@ -952,7 +944,7 @@
 {
 	struct bonding *bond = to_bond(d);
 
-	return sprintf(buf, "%d\n", bond->params.miimon) + 1;
+	return sprintf(buf, "%d\n", bond->params.miimon);
 }
 
 static ssize_t bonding_store_miimon(struct device *d,
@@ -1053,9 +1045,7 @@
 	struct bonding *bond = to_bond(d);
 
 	if (bond->primary_slave)
-		count = sprintf(buf, "%s\n", bond->primary_slave->dev->name) + 1;
-	else
-		count = sprintf(buf, "\n") + 1;
+		count = sprintf(buf, "%s\n", bond->primary_slave->dev->name);
 
 	return count;
 }
@@ -1116,7 +1106,7 @@
 {
 	struct bonding *bond = to_bond(d);
 
-	return sprintf(buf, "%d\n", bond->params.use_carrier) + 1;
+	return sprintf(buf, "%d\n", bond->params.use_carrier);
 }
 
 static ssize_t bonding_store_carrier(struct device *d,
@@ -1158,7 +1148,7 @@
 {
 	struct slave *curr;
 	struct bonding *bond = to_bond(d);
-	int count;
+	int count = 0;
 
 
 	read_lock(&bond->curr_slave_lock);
@@ -1166,9 +1156,7 @@
 	read_unlock(&bond->curr_slave_lock);
 
 	if (USES_PRIMARY(bond->params.mode) && curr)
-		count = sprintf(buf, "%s\n", curr->dev->name) + 1;
-	else
-		count = sprintf(buf, "\n") + 1;
+		count = sprintf(buf, "%s\n", curr->dev->name);
 	return count;
 }
 
@@ -1259,7 +1247,7 @@
 	curr = bond->curr_active_slave;
 	read_unlock(&bond->curr_slave_lock);
 
-	return sprintf(buf, "%s\n", (curr) ? "up" : "down") + 1;
+	return sprintf(buf, "%s\n", (curr) ? "up" : "down");
 }
 static DEVICE_ATTR(mii_status, S_IRUGO, bonding_show_mii_status, NULL);
 
@@ -1276,10 +1264,8 @@
 
 	if (bond->params.mode == BOND_MODE_8023AD) {
 		struct ad_info ad_info;
-		count = sprintf(buf, "%d\n", (bond_3ad_get_active_agg_info(bond, &ad_info)) ?  0 : ad_info.aggregator_id) + 1;
+		count = sprintf(buf, "%d\n", (bond_3ad_get_active_agg_info(bond, &ad_info)) ?  0 : ad_info.aggregator_id);
 	}
-	else
-		count = sprintf(buf, "\n") + 1;
 
 	return count;
 }
@@ -1298,10 +1284,8 @@
 
 	if (bond->params.mode == BOND_MODE_8023AD) {
 		struct ad_info ad_info;
-		count = sprintf(buf, "%d\n", (bond_3ad_get_active_agg_info(bond, &ad_info)) ?  0: ad_info.ports) + 1;
+		count = sprintf(buf, "%d\n", (bond_3ad_get_active_agg_info(bond, &ad_info)) ?  0: ad_info.ports);
 	}
-	else
-		count = sprintf(buf, "\n") + 1;
 
 	return count;
 }
@@ -1320,10 +1304,8 @@
 
 	if (bond->params.mode == BOND_MODE_8023AD) {
 		struct ad_info ad_info;
-		count = sprintf(buf, "%d\n", (bond_3ad_get_active_agg_info(bond, &ad_info)) ?  0 : ad_info.actor_key) + 1;
+		count = sprintf(buf, "%d\n", (bond_3ad_get_active_agg_info(bond, &ad_info)) ?  0 : ad_info.actor_key);
 	}
-	else
-		count = sprintf(buf, "\n") + 1;
 
 	return count;
 }
@@ -1342,10 +1324,8 @@
 
 	if (bond->params.mode == BOND_MODE_8023AD) {
 		struct ad_info ad_info;
-		count = sprintf(buf, "%d\n", (bond_3ad_get_active_agg_info(bond, &ad_info)) ?  0 : ad_info.partner_key) + 1;
+		count = sprintf(buf, "%d\n", (bond_3ad_get_active_agg_info(bond, &ad_info)) ?  0 : ad_info.partner_key);
 	}
-	else
-		count = sprintf(buf, "\n") + 1;
 
 	return count;
 }
@@ -1371,11 +1351,9 @@
 				       ad_info.partner_system[2],
 				       ad_info.partner_system[3],
 				       ad_info.partner_system[4],
-				       ad_info.partner_system[5]) + 1;
+				       ad_info.partner_system[5]);
 		}
 	}
-	else
-		count = sprintf(buf, "\n") + 1;
 
 	return count;
 }

Re: bonding sysfs output

[Wagner Ferenc]

Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> writes:

> On Sun, 25 Nov 2007 16:12:57 +0100 Wagner Ferenc <wferi@niif.hu> wrote:
>
>> I propose it as a fix for trailing NULs and spaces like eg.
>> 
>> $ od -c /sys/class/net/bond0/bonding/slaves 
>> 0000000   e   t   h   -   l   e   f   t       e   t   h   -   r   i   g
>> 0000020   h   t      \n  \0
>> 0000025
>> 
>> I'm afraid there're other problems with "++more++" handling, but let's
>> not consider those just yet.  Find the patch attached.  The first
>> hunks also renames buffer to buf, for consistency's shake.
>> 
>> The original version had varying behaviour for Not Applicable cases.
>> This patch also settles for empty files (not even a line feed) in
>> those cases, but I'm not sure about the general policy on this matter.
>
> hm, there are a lot of changes there.  Were they all actually needed to fix
> the one bug which you have described?

Trailing NULs are present in each file under /sys/class/net/*/bonding
and also in /sys/class/net/bonding_masters.  That is, in every file
provided by drivers/net/bonding/bond_sysfs.c.  Most of the patch is
concerned with this.

Closely related is the presence of trailing spaces in multivalue
files.  There are three such files, one of them has the trailing space
removed.  This patch removes it from the other two.  During this it
also renames one function argument 'buffer' to 'buf', for consistency.

On the policy side: some files are not applicable to some types of
bonds, and return a single linefeed in that case.  Except for one
single case, which returns 'NA\n'.  The patch changes these cases into
emtpy files.

If these are worthy changes, I'm absolutely willing to split up the
patch into three parts as the above.
-- 
Thanks,
Feri.

Re: bonding sysfs output

[Andrew Morton]

On Mon, 26 Nov 2007 09:29:40 +0100 Wagner Ferenc <wferi@niif.hu> wrote:

> Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> writes:
> 
> > On Sun, 25 Nov 2007 16:12:57 +0100 Wagner Ferenc <wferi@niif.hu> wrote:
> >
> >> I propose it as a fix for trailing NULs and spaces like eg.
> >> 
> >> $ od -c /sys/class/net/bond0/bonding/slaves 
> >> 0000000   e   t   h   -   l   e   f   t       e   t   h   -   r   i   g
> >> 0000020   h   t      \n  \0
> >> 0000025
> >> 
> >> I'm afraid there're other problems with "++more++" handling, but let's
> >> not consider those just yet.  Find the patch attached.  The first
> >> hunks also renames buffer to buf, for consistency's shake.
> >> 
> >> The original version had varying behaviour for Not Applicable cases.
> >> This patch also settles for empty files (not even a line feed) in
> >> those cases, but I'm not sure about the general policy on this matter.
> >
> > hm, there are a lot of changes there.  Were they all actually needed to fix
> > the one bug which you have described?
> 
> Trailing NULs are present in each file under /sys/class/net/*/bonding
> and also in /sys/class/net/bonding_masters.  That is, in every file
> provided by drivers/net/bonding/bond_sysfs.c.  Most of the patch is
> concerned with this.
> 
> Closely related is the presence of trailing spaces in multivalue
> files.  There are three such files, one of them has the trailing space
> removed.  This patch removes it from the other two.  During this it
> also renames one function argument 'buffer' to 'buf', for consistency.
> 
> On the policy side: some files are not applicable to some types of
> bonds, and return a single linefeed in that case.  Except for one
> single case, which returns 'NA\n'.  The patch changes these cases into
> emtpy files.
> 
> If these are worthy changes, I'm absolutely willing to split up the
> patch into three parts as the above.

Well that would be good if poss, thanks.

But fixing bugs is way more important than niceties of patch presentation
however I wasn't prepared to fix the rejects which that patch is hitting in
the considerably-changed bonding_show_ad_partner_mac().  Please:

- raise patches against the latest Linus tree
(ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/snapshots/)

- cc netdev@vger.kernel.org on networking-related matters

- Include a Signed-off-by: as per Documentation/SubmittingPatches

- Try to ensure that the full explanation (such as you have above) is
covered in the changelog text.

Thanks.

Re: bonding sysfs output

[Ferenc Wagner]

Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> writes:

> On Mon, 26 Nov 2007 09:29:40 +0100 Wagner Ferenc <wferi@niif.hu> wrote:
>
>> Trailing NULs are present in each file under /sys/class/net/*/bonding
>> and also in /sys/class/net/bonding_masters.  That is, in every file
>> provided by drivers/net/bonding/bond_sysfs.c.  Most of the patch is
>> concerned with this.
>> 
>> Closely related is the presence of trailing spaces in multivalue
>> files.  There are three such files, one of them has the trailing space
>> removed.  This patch removes it from the other two.  During this it
>> also renames one function argument 'buffer' to 'buf', for consistency.
>> 
>> On the policy side: some files are not applicable to some types of
>> bonds, and return a single linefeed in that case.  Except for one
>> single case, which returns 'NA\n'.  The patch changes these cases into
>> emtpy files.
>> 
>> If these are worthy changes, I'm absolutely willing to split up the
>> patch into three parts as the above.
>
> Well that would be good if poss, thanks.

Will do.  Not exactly a simple thing, as the changes collide.

> But fixing bugs is way more important than niceties of patch presentation
> however I wasn't prepared to fix the rejects which that patch is hitting in
> the considerably-changed bonding_show_ad_partner_mac().  Please:

Yes, the patch was against 2.6.23.8.  Forgot to mention. :(

> - raise patches against the latest Linus tree
> (ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/snapshots/)

I thought it was better to change to git.  Isn't it so?
SubmittingPatches has nothing to say about that...
Can I find collected best practices somewhere?  Which tree, which
branch, how/when to rebase, format-patch, etc...

(If given no further instructions, I'll try my best and you can
reflect on the result.  I mean, the above questions are not blocking
me, feel free not to answer.)

> - cc netdev@vger.kernel.org on networking-related matters
>
> - Include a Signed-off-by: as per Documentation/SubmittingPatches
>
> - Try to ensure that the full explanation (such as you have above) is
> covered in the changelog text.

Ok.
-- 
Thanks for your time,
Feri.

Re: bonding sysfs output

[Andrew Morton]

On Tue, 27 Nov 2007 10:56:43 +0100 Ferenc Wagner <wferi@niif.hu> wrote:

> > - raise patches against the latest Linus tree
> > (ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/snapshots/)
> 
> I thought it was better to change to git.  Isn't it so?

Yes, git is a bit more uptodate than the snapshots.  But if that matters
you were very unlucky.

> SubmittingPatches has nothing to say about that...
> Can I find collected best practices somewhere?  Which tree, which
> branch, how/when to rebase, format-patch, etc...

gosh.  Documentation/Submit*,
http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/tpp.txt,
http://linux.yyz.us/patch-format.html, other places.  Probably people have
written books about it by now.  But don't sweat it - you're close enough ;)

Re: bonding sysfs output

[Wagner Ferenc]

Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> writes:

> On Tue, 27 Nov 2007 10:56:43 +0100 Ferenc Wagner <wferi@niif.hu> wrote:
>
>>> - raise patches against the latest Linus tree
>>> (ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/snapshots/)
>> 
>> I thought it was better to change to git.  Isn't it so?
>> SubmittingPatches has nothing to say about that...
>> Can I find collected best practices somewhere?  Which tree, which
>> branch, how/when to rebase, format-patch, etc...
>
> gosh.  Documentation/Submit*,
> http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/tpp.txt,
> http://linux.yyz.us/patch-format.html, other places.  Probably people have
> written books about it by now.  But don't sweat it - you're close enough ;)

I wonder where the information got lost...  I miss docs on submitting
patches from git ONLY.  The general documentation is pretty good and
helpful, just doesn't treat git (not using git in general, but using
it for submitting patches to the Linux kernel).  On the other hand
there's a multitude of repositories to clone times a zillion branches
to follow.  Which should be the basis of the patches?  That's not very
clear.

Anyway, find them in my previous mails.  Too bad I realised just after
the fact that cosmetic changes should go first.  Hope it's mostly OK.
-- 
Regards,
Feri.

Re: bonding sysfs output

[Jean Delvare]

Hi Wagner,

On Mon, 26 Nov 2007 09:29:40 +0100, Wagner Ferenc wrote:
> On the policy side: some files are not applicable to some types of
> bonds, and return a single linefeed in that case.  Except for one
> single case, which returns 'NA\n'.  The patch changes these cases into
> emtpy files.

IMHO a better approach would be to not create the files at all when
they make no sense for a given type of bond.

-- 
Jean Delvare

Re: bonding sysfs output

[Ferenc Wagner]

Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> writes:

> On Mon, 26 Nov 2007 09:29:40 +0100, Wagner Ferenc wrote:
>
>> On the policy side: some files are not applicable to some types of
>> bonds, and return a single linefeed in that case.  Except for one
>> single case, which returns 'NA\n'.  The patch changes these cases into
>> emtpy files.
>
> IMHO a better approach would be to not create the files at all when
> they make no sense for a given type of bond.

That would require much more in-depth changes in the sysfs code, I'm
afraid.  But see also the 5th patch in the series, which reponds to
Jay's suggestion.  And as such, goes in the opposite direction.
-- 
Thanks,
Feri.