@@ -1359,7 +1359,6 @@ static inline u32 qib_get_rcvhdrtail(const struct qib_ctxtdata *rcd)
* sysfs interface.
*/
-extern const char ib_qib_version[];
extern const struct attribute_group qib_attr_group;
extern const struct attribute_group *qib_attr_port_groups[];
@@ -44,12 +44,6 @@
#include "qib.h"
-/*
- * The size has to be longer than this string, so we can append
- * board/chip information to it in the init code.
- */
-const char ib_qib_version[] = QIB_DRIVER_VERSION "\n";
-
DEFINE_MUTEX(qib_mutex); /* general driver use */
unsigned qib_ibmtu;
@@ -585,13 +585,7 @@ static ssize_t hca_type_show(struct device *device,
static DEVICE_ATTR_RO(hca_type);
static DEVICE_ATTR(board_id, 0444, hca_type_show, NULL);
-static ssize_t version_show(struct device *device,
- struct device_attribute *attr, char *buf)
-{
- /* The string printed here is already newline-terminated. */
- return sysfs_emit(buf, "%s", (char *)ib_qib_version);
-}
-static DEVICE_ATTR_RO(version);
+static DEVICE_STRING_ATTR_RO(version, 0444, QIB_DRIVER_VERSION);
static ssize_t boardversion_show(struct device *device,
struct device_attribute *attr, char *buf)
@@ -721,7 +715,7 @@ static struct attribute *qib_attributes[] = {
&dev_attr_hw_rev.attr,
&dev_attr_hca_type.attr,
&dev_attr_board_id.attr,
- &dev_attr_version.attr,
+ &dev_attr_version.attr.attr,
&dev_attr_nctxts.attr,
&dev_attr_nfreectxts.attr,
&dev_attr_serial.attr,
Deduplicate sysfs ->show() callbacks which expose a string at a static memory location. Use the newly introduced device_show_string() helper in the driver core instead by declaring those sysfs attributes with DEVICE_STRING_ATTR_RO(). No functional change intended. Signed-off-by: Lukas Wunner <lukas@wunner.de> --- drivers/infiniband/hw/qib/qib.h | 1 - drivers/infiniband/hw/qib/qib_driver.c | 6 ------ drivers/infiniband/hw/qib/qib_sysfs.c | 10 ++-------- 3 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)