On Tue, Mar 24, 2020 at 10:49:46AM +0100, Martin Kaiser wrote:
> Hi Greg,
>
> Thus wrote Greg KH ([email protected]):
>
> > That is because you have created a driver attribute, not a device
> > attribute. Create device attributes and you should be fine, they bind
> > to the device your driver is passed.
>
> could you point me to an example in the kernel tree where this is done
> correctly for a platform device?
>
> I had a look at
>
> http://kroah.com/log/blog/2013/06/26/how-to-create-a-sysfs-file-correctly/
>
> but I couldn't figure out how to create device attributes in a simple
> platform driver that binds to a platform device.
Look at commit d99995a4f0f1 ("Input: axp20x-pek - convert driver to use
dev_groups") in the 5.4 kernel as an example of how to use the correct
api here.
Hope this helps,
greg k-h
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