linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 03/11] sysfs: create bin_attributes under the requested group

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Message-Id: <20140225033327.214B82C022C@ozlabs.org>
Date:	Tue, 25 Feb 2014 14:33:27 +1100 (EST)
From:	Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>
To:	Cody P Schafer <cody@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Linux PPC <linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
	Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>,
	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...stprotocols.net>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 03/11] sysfs: create bin_attributes under the requested group

On Fri, 2014-14-02 at 22:02:07 UTC, Cody P Schafer wrote:
> bin_attributes created/updated in create_files() (such as those listed
> via (struct device).attribute_groups) were not placed under the
> specified group, and instead appeared in the base kobj directory.
> 
> Fix this by making bin_attributes use creating code similar to normal
> attributes.
> 
> A quick grep shows that no one is using bin_attrs in a named attribute
> group yet, so we can do this without breaking anything in usespace.
> 
> Note that I do not add is_visible() support to
> bin_attributes, though that could be done as well.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Cody P Schafer <cody@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>

Greg has already taken this, so we'll consider that as good as an ack from him,
unless he wants to give us one.

cheers
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