Re: [PATCH 34/54] Driver Core: add kobj_attribute handling

From: Cornelia Huck
Date: Mon Nov 05 2007 - 14:00:21 EST


On Mon, 05 Nov 2007 19:39:31 +0100,
Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Where are the objects that join this kset? A kset is a "collection of
> objects of a similar type", If there are no objects, you don't need a
> kset at all, I guess, but just a plain directory. :)

Yes, ipl.c looks a lot like "we need a subdirectory under /sys/firmware/
and need to jump through hoops to get it there".

> Anyway, seems we need an easy way to pass default attributes to ksets
> and plain directories. If userspace should set some values here when a
> subsystems creates the its sysfs representation, we must make sure, that
> the attributes exist at the time the event is sent, otherwise we will
> run into all sorts of timing problems.

Maybe they need something like device->uevent_suppress, but at the
kobject level?
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