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  2. v5 current

[PATCH v5 07/14] mfd: lm3533: Use dev_groups in struct device_driver

From: Svyatoslav Ryhel <hidden>
Date: 2026-06-17 08:00:58
Also in: dri-devel, linux-devicetree, linux-iio, linux-leds, lkml
Subsystem: backlight class/subsystem, framebuffer layer, multifunction devices (mfd), the rest · Maintainers: Lee Jones, Daniel Thompson, Jingoo Han, Helge Deller, Linus Torvalds

Instead of creating and removing the device sysfs attributes directly
during probe and remove of the driver, respectively, use dev_groups in
struct device_driver to point to the attribute definitions and let the
core take care of creating and removing them.

No intentional functional impact.

Signed-off-by: Svyatoslav Ryhel <redacted>
---
 drivers/mfd/lm3533-core.c           | 16 ++++++----------
 drivers/video/backlight/lm3533_bl.c | 22 ++++++++--------------
 2 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 24 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/mfd/lm3533-core.c b/drivers/mfd/lm3533-core.c
index 45e7f7481aa0..b03a3ae96c10 100644
--- a/drivers/mfd/lm3533-core.c
+++ b/drivers/mfd/lm3533-core.c
@@ -296,6 +296,11 @@ static struct attribute_group lm3533_attribute_group = {
 	.attrs		= lm3533_attributes
 };
 
+static const struct attribute_group *lm3533_attribute_groups[] = {
+	&lm3533_attribute_group,
+	NULL,
+};
+
 static int lm3533_device_als_init(struct lm3533 *lm3533)
 {
 	struct lm3533_platform_data *pdata = dev_get_platdata(lm3533->dev);
@@ -416,16 +421,8 @@ static int lm3533_device_init(struct lm3533 *lm3533)
 	lm3533_device_bl_init(lm3533);
 	lm3533_device_led_init(lm3533);
 
-	ret = sysfs_create_group(&lm3533->dev->kobj, &lm3533_attribute_group);
-	if (ret < 0) {
-		dev_err(lm3533->dev, "failed to create sysfs attributes\n");
-		goto err_unregister;
-	}
-
 	return 0;
 
-err_unregister:
-	mfd_remove_devices(lm3533->dev);
 err_disable:
 	lm3533_disable(lm3533);
 
@@ -436,8 +433,6 @@ static void lm3533_device_exit(struct lm3533 *lm3533)
 {
 	dev_dbg(lm3533->dev, "%s\n", __func__);
 
-	sysfs_remove_group(&lm3533->dev->kobj, &lm3533_attribute_group);
-
 	mfd_remove_devices(lm3533->dev);
 	lm3533_disable(lm3533);
 }
@@ -532,6 +527,7 @@ MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE(i2c, lm3533_i2c_ids);
 static struct i2c_driver lm3533_i2c_driver = {
 	.driver = {
 		   .name = "lm3533",
+		   .dev_groups = lm3533_attribute_groups,
 	},
 	.id_table	= lm3533_i2c_ids,
 	.probe		= lm3533_i2c_probe,
diff --git a/drivers/video/backlight/lm3533_bl.c b/drivers/video/backlight/lm3533_bl.c
index 4d6f68033480..9ef171d3aaea 100644
--- a/drivers/video/backlight/lm3533_bl.c
+++ b/drivers/video/backlight/lm3533_bl.c
@@ -237,6 +237,11 @@ static struct attribute_group lm3533_bl_attribute_group = {
 	.attrs		= lm3533_bl_attributes
 };
 
+static const struct attribute_group *lm3533_bl_attribute_groups[] = {
+	&lm3533_bl_attribute_group,
+	NULL,
+};
+
 static int lm3533_bl_setup(struct lm3533_bl *bl,
 					struct lm3533_bl_platform_data *pdata)
 {
@@ -304,28 +309,17 @@ static int lm3533_bl_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
 
 	platform_set_drvdata(pdev, bl);
 
-	ret = sysfs_create_group(&bd->dev.kobj, &lm3533_bl_attribute_group);
-	if (ret < 0) {
-		dev_err(&pdev->dev, "failed to create sysfs attributes\n");
-		return ret;
-	}
-
 	backlight_update_status(bd);
 
 	ret = lm3533_bl_setup(bl, pdata);
 	if (ret)
-		goto err_sysfs_remove;
+		return ret;
 
 	ret = lm3533_ctrlbank_enable(&bl->cb);
 	if (ret)
-		goto err_sysfs_remove;
+		return ret;
 
 	return 0;
-
-err_sysfs_remove:
-	sysfs_remove_group(&bd->dev.kobj, &lm3533_bl_attribute_group);
-
-	return ret;
 }
 
 static void lm3533_bl_remove(struct platform_device *pdev)
@@ -339,7 +333,6 @@ static void lm3533_bl_remove(struct platform_device *pdev)
 	bd->props.brightness = 0;
 
 	lm3533_ctrlbank_disable(&bl->cb);
-	sysfs_remove_group(&bd->dev.kobj, &lm3533_bl_attribute_group);
 }
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_PM_SLEEP
@@ -377,6 +370,7 @@ static struct platform_driver lm3533_bl_driver = {
 	.driver = {
 		.name	= "lm3533-backlight",
 		.pm	= &lm3533_bl_pm_ops,
+		.dev_groups = lm3533_bl_attribute_groups,
 	},
 	.probe		= lm3533_bl_probe,
 	.remove		= lm3533_bl_remove,
-- 
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