On Wed, 31 Oct 2007 10:52:35 +0100,
Stefan Richter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Cornelia Huck wrote:
> > Greg KH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> On Tue, Oct 30, 2007 at 01:25:43PM -0500, James Bottomley wrote:
> >>> + for (i = 0, attr = grp->attrs; *attr; i++, attr++)
> >>> +         if (grp->is_visible &&
> >>> +             grp->is_visible(kobj, *attr, i))
> >>> +                 sysfs_hash_and_remove(dir_sd, (*attr)->name);
> >> Hm, doesn't this break for the zillions of attribute groups that do not
> >> have the is_visible function set?
> ...
> > Would it make more sense then to turn the meaning of the callback
> > around?
> > 
> > for (...) {
> >     if (grp->mask_out && grp->mask_out(kobj, *attr, i))
> >             continue;
> >     error |= sysfs_add_file(...);
> > }
> 
>               if (!grp->is_visible ||
>                   grp->is_visible(kobj, *attr, i))
>                       add or remove();
> 

Hm, I find that a bit harder to parse...

mask_out() would also imply that the common use case is to have all
attributes in the group created and that you need to take action to
have an attribute not created.
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