The driver core supports the ability to handle the creation and removal of device-specific sysfs files in a race-free manner. Moreover, it can guarantee the success of creation. Therefore, it should be better to convert to use dev_groups.
Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2") Signed-off-by: Jiasheng Jiang <jiash...@iscas.ac.cn> --- drivers/video/fbdev/gbefb.c | 20 +++++++------------- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/video/fbdev/gbefb.c b/drivers/video/fbdev/gbefb.c index 6b4d5a7f3e15..1582c718329c 100644 --- a/drivers/video/fbdev/gbefb.c +++ b/drivers/video/fbdev/gbefb.c @@ -1072,17 +1072,12 @@ static ssize_t gbefb_show_rev(struct device *device, struct device_attribute *at static DEVICE_ATTR(revision, S_IRUGO, gbefb_show_rev, NULL); -static void gbefb_remove_sysfs(struct device *dev) -{ - device_remove_file(dev, &dev_attr_size); - device_remove_file(dev, &dev_attr_revision); -} - -static void gbefb_create_sysfs(struct device *dev) -{ - device_create_file(dev, &dev_attr_size); - device_create_file(dev, &dev_attr_revision); -} +static struct attribute *gbefb_attrs[] = { + &dev_attr_size.attr, + &dev_attr_revision.attr, + NULL, +}; +ATTRIBUTE_GROUPS(gbefb); /* * Initialization @@ -1221,7 +1216,6 @@ static int gbefb_probe(struct platform_device *p_dev) } platform_set_drvdata(p_dev, info); - gbefb_create_sysfs(&p_dev->dev); fb_info(info, "%s rev %d @ 0x%08x using %dkB memory\n", info->fix.id, gbe_revision, (unsigned)GBE_BASE, @@ -1248,7 +1242,6 @@ static int gbefb_remove(struct platform_device* p_dev) gbe_turn_off(); arch_phys_wc_del(par->wc_cookie); release_mem_region(GBE_BASE, sizeof(struct sgi_gbe)); - gbefb_remove_sysfs(&p_dev->dev); framebuffer_release(info); return 0; @@ -1259,6 +1252,7 @@ static struct platform_driver gbefb_driver = { .remove = gbefb_remove, .driver = { .name = "gbefb", + .dev_groups = gbefb_groups, }, }; -- 2.25.1