Re: SYSFS "errors"

From: Borislav Petkov
Date: Tue Feb 19 2013 - 09:10:38 EST


On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 02:58:07PM +0100, Hannes Reinecke wrote:
> Please consider adding a default attribute which return '-EINVAL' or
> somesuch when the function pointers are not set. But _not_ adding it
> via device_create_file(). That's evil.

This is what we do now. We probably could add the permissions fiddling
out in the the code but remain using DEVICE_ATTR.

Thanks.

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Regards/Gruss,
Boris.

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