linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Introduce {sysfs,device}_create_file

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Message-ID: <20100512191955.GA30861@suse.de>
Date:	Wed, 12 May 2010 12:19:55 -0700
From:	Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de>
To:	Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@...y.org>
Cc:	Anton Vorontsov <cbouatmailru@...il.com>,
	Daniel Mack <daniel@...aq.de>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>,
	Alexey Starikovskiy <astarikovskiy@...e.de>,
	Len Brown <len.brown@...el.com>,
	Mark Brown <broonie@...nsource.wolfsonmicro.com>,
	Matt Reimer <mreimer@...p.net>,
	Evgeniy Polyakov <zbr@...emap.net>, Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Introduce {sysfs,device}_create_file_mode

On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 09:12:46PM +0200, Kay Sievers wrote:
> On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 21:08, Anton Vorontsov <cbouatmailru@...il.com> wrote:
> > On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 11:38:06AM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> >> On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 10:15:46PM +0400, Anton Vorontsov wrote:
> >> > We need to create attributes with different modes across devices.
> >> > We can do this by modifying attr.mode between device_create_file
> >> > invocations, but that is racy in case of globally defined attrs.
> >> >
> >> > Luckily, there's sysfs_add_file_mode() function that seems to do
> >> > exactly what we want, and if we use it, we don't need any locks
> >> > to avoid races. Though, it isn't exposed via device-drivers core
> >> > API.
> >>
> >> But you race the creation of the device notifying userspace, and then
> >> the file being created, right?
> >
> > Yep, you've raised that question once, like 3 years ago. :-)
> >
> > http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/4/11/452
> > http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/4/12/144
> >
> > In short: we can't use attr groups since the attributes creation
> > is conditional. And we especially don't want to use the attr groups
> > for attrs with different modes. But it's not a problem, because...
> 
> Groups have a filter callback for every member, to decide if the
> attribute should be created or not.

Yeah, that's how we solved that issue a long time ago :)

Can you please switch to using attribute groups now, so that userspace
doesn't have to handle 'change' events?

thanks,

greg k-h
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