Re: [PATCH 1/2] sysfs: Add helper BIN_ATTRIBUTE_GROUPS

From: Heiner Kallweit
Date: Wed May 19 2021 - 15:03:01 EST


On 19.05.2021 19:04, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Wed, May 19, 2021 at 06:33:14PM +0200, Heiner Kallweit wrote:
>> New helper BIN_ATTRIBUTE_GROUPS() does the same as ATTRIBUTE_GROUPS(),
>> just for binary attributes.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@xxxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>> include/linux/sysfs.h | 6 ++++++
>> 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
>>
>> diff --git a/include/linux/sysfs.h b/include/linux/sysfs.h
>> index d76a1ddf8..a12556a4b 100644
>> --- a/include/linux/sysfs.h
>> +++ b/include/linux/sysfs.h
>> @@ -162,6 +162,12 @@ static const struct attribute_group _name##_group = { \
>> }; \
>> __ATTRIBUTE_GROUPS(_name)
>>
>> +#define BIN_ATTRIBUTE_GROUPS(_name) \
>> +static const struct attribute_group _name##_group = { \
>> + .bin_attrs = _name##_attrs, \
>> +}; \
>> +__ATTRIBUTE_GROUPS(_name)
>
> Is this really needed by more than just 1 driver?
>
Few more use case I saw:
devcd_dev_groups in drivers/base/devcoredump.c
w1_f3a_group in drivers/w1/slaves/w1_ds2413.c
w1_slave_default_groups in drivers/w1/w1.c

> How about just "open code" this for now, binary sysfs files are rare.
>
> thanks,
>
> greg k-h
>
Heiner