linux-kernel - driver creating directories under a device entry

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Message-ID: <20090113232734.GS12431@fluff.org.uk>
Date:	Tue, 13 Jan 2009 23:27:34 +0000
From:	Ben Dooks <ben-linux@...ff.org>
To:	gregkh@...e.de, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: driver creating directories under a device entry

I have a driver which uses sysfs_create_dir() to create a set of
directories under the device sysfs directory to bundle up attributes
that are added common for each sub-part of the device.

Firstly, is this considered a problem

Secondly, sysfs_create_dir() is not exported so the driver cannot
currently be built as a module. Would a patch to export sysfs_create_dir
be acceptable?

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Ben (ben@...ff.org, http://www.fluff.org/)

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