Re: [PATCH v3 3/6] block: refactor sysfs code

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Thu Jun 24 2021 - 02:14:20 EST


On Wed, Jun 23, 2021 at 09:03:40PM +0200, Matteo Croce wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 23, 2021 at 1:53 PM Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > > -static void disk_add_events(struct gendisk *disk)
> > > +static void disk_add_sysfs(struct gendisk *disk)
> > > {
> > > /* FIXME: error handling */
> > > - if (sysfs_create_files(&disk_to_dev(disk)->kobj, disk_events_attrs) < 0)
> > > + if (sysfs_create_files(&disk_to_dev(disk)->kobj, disk_sysfs_attrs) < 0)
> > > pr_warn("%s: failed to create sysfs files for events\n",
> > > disk->disk_name);
> > > +}
> >
> > Actually, what we need here is a way how we can setup the ->groups
> > field of the device to include all attribute groups instead of having
> > to call sysfs_create_files at all.
>
> I don't get this one. You mean in general or in this series?

In general before we make more use of the block device provided attrs.