linux-kernel - Sysfs - export sysfs_create

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Message-ID: <4E29B6B1.2090107@cam.ac.uk>
Date:	Fri, 22 Jul 2011 18:43:13 +0100
From:	Jonathan Cameron <jic23@....ac.uk>
To:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
Subject: Sysfs - export sysfs_create_subdir?

Hi All,

I have a couple of cases in IIO where under some conditions
we end up using dummy attr_groups (no elements) to initialize
a sub directory before dynamically creating all of its attributes.

Now having dummy groups in the IIO core is fine, but it does seem
a little messy.

The obvious choice would be to put together a small wrapper function
for sysfs_create_subdir that also does sysfs_get on the result.

Anyone have any strong feelings on whether this is worthwhile or not?

It'll save me about 16 lines of code, so not exactly a big point,
but nice to get it right none the less!

If there is a way of doing this cleanly that I'm missing, then sorry
for the noise and please tell me what it is!

Jonathan
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