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Re: [PATCH] st: convert to using driver attr groups for sysfs

From: Greg KH <hidden>
Date: 2015-06-24 02:37:57
Also in: linux-scsi

On Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 08:11:00AM +0000, Seymour, Shane M wrote:
This patch changes the st driver to use attribute groups so
driver sysfs files are created automatically. See the
following for reference:

http://kroah.com/log/blog/2013/06/26/how-to-create-a-sysfs-file-correctly/

Signed-off-by: Shane Seymour <redacted>
Very nice, thanks for doing this.

Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
---
--- a/drivers/scsi/st.c	2015-06-22 14:20:40.829612661 -0500
+++ b/drivers/scsi/st.c	2015-06-22 15:49:49.357248393 -0500
@@ -85,6 +85,7 @@ static int debug_flag;
 
 static struct class st_sysfs_class;
 static const struct attribute_group *st_dev_groups[];
+static const struct attribute_group *st_drv_groups[];
 
 MODULE_AUTHOR("Kai Makisara");
 MODULE_DESCRIPTION("SCSI tape (st) driver");
@@ -198,15 +199,13 @@ static int sgl_unmap_user_pages(struct s
 static int st_probe(struct device *);
 static int st_remove(struct device *);
 
-static int do_create_sysfs_files(void);
-static void do_remove_sysfs_files(void);
-
 static struct scsi_driver st_template = {
 	.gendrv = {
 		.name		= "st",
 		.owner		= THIS_MODULE,
 		.probe		= st_probe,
 		.remove		= st_remove,
+		.groups		= st_drv_groups,
 	},
 };
 
@@ -4404,14 +4403,8 @@ static int __init init_st(void)
 	if (err)
 		goto err_chrdev;
 
-	err = do_create_sysfs_files();
-	if (err)
-		goto err_scsidrv;
-
 	return 0;
 
-err_scsidrv:
-	scsi_unregister_driver(&st_template.gendrv);
 err_chrdev:
 	unregister_chrdev_region(MKDEV(SCSI_TAPE_MAJOR, 0),
 				 ST_MAX_TAPE_ENTRIES);
@@ -4422,7 +4415,6 @@ err_class:
 
 static void __exit exit_st(void)
 {
-	do_remove_sysfs_files();
 	scsi_unregister_driver(&st_template.gendrv);
 	unregister_chrdev_region(MKDEV(SCSI_TAPE_MAJOR, 0),
 				 ST_MAX_TAPE_ENTRIES);
@@ -4459,44 +4451,14 @@ static ssize_t st_version_show(struct de
 }
 static DRIVER_ATTR(version, S_IRUGO, st_version_show, NULL);
For a future patch, you might want to convert these type of declarations
to use DRIVER_ATTR_RO() and friends.

thanks,

greg k-h
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