linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 4/8] soc: integrator: Use custom soc attribute group instead of device_create

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Date:   Mon, 25 May 2020 13:46:09 +0200
From:   Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>
To:     Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@....com>
Cc:     "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux ARM <linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
        Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/8] soc: integrator: Use custom soc attribute group
 instead of device_create_file

On Sat, May 23, 2020 at 7:09 PM Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@....com> wrote:

> Commit c31e73121f4c ("base: soc: Handle custom soc information sysfs
> entries") introduced custom soc attribute group in soc_device_attribute
> structure but there are no users treewide. While trying to understand
> the motivation and tried to use it, it was found lot of existing custom
> attributes can moved to use it instead of device_create_file.
>
> Though most of these never remove/cleanup the custom attribute as they
> never call soc_device_unregister, using these custom attribute group
> eliminate the need for any cleanup as the driver infrastructure will
> take care of that.
>
> Let us remove device_create_file and start using the custom attribute
> group in soc_device_attribute.
>
> Cc: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>
> Signed-off-by: Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@....com>

Reviewed-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>

Yours,
Linus Walleij