Re: sysfs file creation result nightmare

[Andrew Morton]

On Sat, 16 Dec 2006 07:16:13 +1100
Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > Beware that sysfs_remove_bin_file() will complain loudly if you later
> > attempt to delete that file that was never created.
> 
> That's another problem... what is a driver that creates 15 files
> supposed to do ? Have 15 booleans to remember which files where
> successfully created and then test all of them on cleanup ? That sounds
> like even more bloat to me...

That's the sort of thing which should be done inside sysfs_create_group()
and sysfs_remove_group().
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