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From: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
To: Adam Belay <abelay@novell.com>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>,
	Patrick Mochel <mochel@digitalimplant.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-pm@lists.osdl.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] Some thoughts on device drivers and sysfs
Date: Sun, 27 Mar 2005 23:08:53 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050327210853.GA18358@isilmar.linta.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1111951499.3503.87.camel@localhost.localdomain>

On Sun, Mar 27, 2005 at 02:24:59PM -0500, Adam Belay wrote:
> One of the original design goals of sysfs was to provide a standardized
> location to keep driver configuration attributes.  Although sysfs
> handles this very well for bus devices and class devices, there isn't
> currently a method to export attributes for device drivers and their
> specific bound device instances to userspace.

Drivers can add (e.g. in ->probe) attributes for devices using
extern int device_create_file(struct device *device, struct device_attribute
* entry);
and delete them (e.g. in ->remove) using
extern void device_remove_file(struct device * dev, struct device_attribute
* attr);

and there's also 

extern int driver_create_file(struct device_driver *, struct
driver_attribute *);
extern void driver_remove_file(struct device_driver *, struct
driver_attribute *);


	Dominik

  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-03-27 21:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-03-27 19:24 Adam Belay
2005-03-27 20:53 ` Arioch
2005-03-27 21:08 ` Dominik Brodowski [this message]
2005-03-27 21:27   ` Adam Belay
2005-03-27 21:43     ` Dominik Brodowski
2005-03-27 22:18       ` Adam Belay
2005-03-27 21:25 ` Jon Smirl
2005-03-29  5:03 ` Greg KH
2005-03-29  6:33   ` [linux-pm] " Dmitry Torokhov

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