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* How to correctly create device attributes in a platform driver?
@ 2015-05-22  9:04 Josef Holzmayr
  2015-05-23 19:01 ` Greg KH
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Josef Holzmayr @ 2015-05-22  9:04 UTC (permalink / raw
  To: driverdev-devel

Howdy!

I’m currently working on a platform_driver, where I want an attribute_group to be in effect for every platforn_device that went through the corresponding .probe() call. Now http://kroah.com/log/blog/2013/06/26/how-to-create-a-sysfs-file-correctly/ suggests to set this in the struct device, but as far as I understand it, this struct is already passed to me. So where can I feed it earlier in the instantiation? Or do I have to resort to sighs_create_group()?

Thanks,
J. Holzmayr

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* Re: How to correctly create device attributes in a platform driver?
  2015-05-22  9:04 How to correctly create device attributes in a platform driver? Josef Holzmayr
@ 2015-05-23 19:01 ` Greg KH
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: Greg KH @ 2015-05-23 19:01 UTC (permalink / raw
  To: Josef Holzmayr; +Cc: driverdev-devel

On Fri, May 22, 2015 at 11:04:30AM +0200, Josef Holzmayr wrote:
> Howdy!
> 
> I’m currently working on a platform_driver, where I want an
> attribute_group to be in effect for every platforn_device that went
> through the corresponding .probe() call. Now
> http://kroah.com/log/blog/2013/06/26/how-to-create-a-sysfs-file-correctly/
> suggests to set this in the struct device, but as far as I understand
> it, this struct is already passed to me. So where can I feed it
> earlier in the instantiation? Or do I have to resort to
> sighs_create_group()?

The "correct" way is to set the platform_driver's driver->groups field
to your attribute groups.  That way it will be created before the device
is bound to the driver.

It would be nicer if platform_driver had a groups field, so that you
don't have to "dive" into the driver sub-field, but given that you
almost always have to do this anyway, it shouldn't be a big deal.

Hope this helps,

greg k-h
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