Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@xxxxxxx> writes: > The advantages of converting existing sysfs show() methods to sysfs_emit() > and sysfs_emit_at() do not outweigh the risk of introducing bugs. Hence > recommend sysfs_emit() and sysfs_emit_at() only for new implementations of > show() methods. > > Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@xxxxxxxxxx> > Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@xxxxxxx> > --- > Documentation/filesystems/sysfs.rst | 4 ++-- > 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/sysfs.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/sysfs.rst > index c32993bc83c7..624e4f51212e 100644 > --- a/Documentation/filesystems/sysfs.rst > +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/sysfs.rst > @@ -243,8 +243,8 @@ Other notes: > - show() methods should return the number of bytes printed into the > buffer. > > -- show() should only use sysfs_emit() or sysfs_emit_at() when formatting > - the value to be returned to user space. > +- New implementations of show() methods should only use sysfs_emit() or > + sysfs_emit_at() when formatting the value to be returned to user space. > Applied, thanks. jon