Re: [PATCHv4 05/13] Documentation/ABI: Add new node sysfs attributes

[Rafael J. Wysocki]

On Tue, Jan 22, 2019 at 5:37 PM Keith Busch <keith.busch@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Sun, Jan 20, 2019 at 05:16:05PM +0100, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > On Sat, Jan 19, 2019 at 10:01 AM Greg Kroah-Hartman
> > <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > If you do a subdirectory "correctly" (i.e. a name for an attribute
> > > group), that's fine.
> >
> > Yes, that's what I was thinking about: along the lines of the "power"
> > group under device kobjects.
>
> We can't append symlinks to an attribute group, though.

That's right, unfortunately.

> I'd need to create a lot of struct devices just to get the desired directory hiearchy.

No, you don't need to do that.  Kobjects can be added without
registering a struct device for each of them kind of along the lines
of what cpufreq does for its policy objects etc.  See
cpufreq_policy_alloc() and cpufreq_core_init() for examples.

> And then each of those "devices" will have their own "power" group, which
> really doesn't make any sense for what we're trying to show. Is that
> really the right way to do this, or something else I'm missing?

Above?