Re: [PATCH 2/7] mfd / platform: cros_ec: move lightbar attributes to its own driver.

[Guenter Roeck]

Hi Enric,

On Thu, Nov 22, 2018 at 12:33:51PM +0100, Enric Balletbo i Serra wrote:
> The entire way how cros sysfs attibutes are created is broken.
> cros_ec_lightbar should be its own driver and its attributes should be
> associated with a lightbar driver not the mfd driver. In order to retain
> the path, the lightbar attributes are attached to the cros_class.
> 
> The patch also adds the sysfs documentation.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Enric Balletbo i Serra <enric.balletbo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> 
...
>  
> +int cros_ec_attach_attribute_group(struct cros_ec_dev *ec,
> +				   struct attribute_group *attrs)
> +{
> +	return sysfs_create_group(&ec->class_dev.kobj, attrs);
> +}
> +EXPORT_SYMBOL(cros_ec_attach_attribute_group);
> +
> +void cros_ec_detach_attribute_group(struct cros_ec_dev *ec,
> +				    struct attribute_group *attrs)
> +{
> +	sysfs_remove_group(&ec->class_dev.kobj, attrs);
> +}
> +EXPORT_SYMBOL(cros_ec_detach_attribute_group);
> +

Are those two functions necessary ? Why not just call sysfs_create_group
and sysfs_remove_group directly from the calling code ?

Thanks,
Guenter