On Tue, Dec 03, 2013 at 01:53:13PM +0100, Frank Haverkamp wrote:
> Hi Greg,
>
> thanks for taking your time to review our code once more.
>
> Am Mittwoch, den 27.11.2013, 11:22 -0800 schrieb Greg KH:
> > On Wed, Nov 06, 2013 at 01:45:42PM +0100, Frank Haverkamp wrote:
> > > +/**
> > > + * genwqe_init_sysfs() - Setup sysfs entries of the card device
> > > + */
> > > +int genwqe_init_sysfs(struct genwqe_dev *cd)
> > > +{
> > > + int rc;
> > > +
> > > + rc = sysfs_create_group(&cd->dev->kobj, &genwqe_attribute_group);
> > > + if (rc)
> > > + return -ENXIO;
> > > +
> > > + return 0;
> > > +}
> >
> > Why isn't this group the "default" one for the device? That way you
> > don't have to explicitly create/remove it, the driver core handles it
> > all automatically for you, and you don't race with userspace when it is
> > created/announced.
>
> I found the ..._with_groups variant of device_create:
> cd->dev = device_create_with_groups(cd->class_genwqe,
> &cd->pci_dev->dev,
> cd->devnum_genwqe, cd,
> genwqe_attribute_groups,
> GENWQE_DEVNAME "%u_card",
> cd->card_idx);
>
> This works nicely for me too. Is that what you had in mind?
Yes, that's what it was created for :)
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