On Tue 08 Oct 08:43 PDT 2019, Greg KH wrote: > On Tue, Oct 08, 2019 at 08:33:11AM -0700, Stephen Boyd wrote: > > Quoting Murali Nalajala (2019-10-07 13:37:42) > > > Soc framework exposed sysfs entries are not sufficient for some > > > of the h/w platforms. Currently there is no interface where soc > > > drivers can expose further information about their SoCs via soc > > > framework. This change address this limitation where clients can > > > pass their custom entries as attribute group and soc framework > > > would expose them as sysfs properties. > > > > > > Signed-off-by: Murali Nalajala <mnala...@codeaurora.org> > > > --- > > > > Reviewed-by: Stephen Boyd <swb...@chromium.org> > > > > Nice, can we convert the existing soc drivers to use this interface > instead of the "export the device pointer" mess that they currently > have? That way we can drop that function entirely. >
Unfortunately we can't just drop it, because it's used on some SoCs as the parent of all platform_devices. But we can definitely get rid of all that uses it to create sysfs files. Regards, Bjorn
