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authorAlan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>2010-09-25 23:34:22 +0200
committerRafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>2010-10-17 01:57:44 +0200
commit69d44ffbd772bede8c2a6d182e6e14f94826520b (patch)
tree6c160172d34b9e023d459d3af0709d9b5760416b /fs/sysfs
parentPM: Fix potential issue with failing asynchronous suspend (diff)
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sysfs: Add sysfs_merge_group() and sysfs_unmerge_group()
This patch (as1420) adds sysfs_merge_group() and sysfs_unmerge_group() functions, allowing drivers easily to add and remove sets of attributes to a pre-existing attribute group directory. Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/sysfs')
-rw-r--r--fs/sysfs/group.c59
1 files changed, 59 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/fs/sysfs/group.c b/fs/sysfs/group.c
index 23c1e598792a..442f34ff1af8 100644
--- a/fs/sysfs/group.c
+++ b/fs/sysfs/group.c
@@ -148,6 +148,65 @@ void sysfs_remove_group(struct kobject * kobj,
sysfs_put(sd);
}
+/**
+ * sysfs_merge_group - merge files into a pre-existing attribute group.
+ * @kobj: The kobject containing the group.
+ * @grp: The files to create and the attribute group they belong to.
+ *
+ * This function returns an error if the group doesn't exist or any of the
+ * files already exist in that group, in which case none of the new files
+ * are created.
+ */
+int sysfs_merge_group(struct kobject *kobj,
+ const struct attribute_group *grp)
+{
+ struct sysfs_dirent *dir_sd;
+ int error = 0;
+ struct attribute *const *attr;
+ int i;
+
+ if (grp)
+ dir_sd = sysfs_get_dirent(kobj->sd, NULL, grp->name);
+ else
+ dir_sd = sysfs_get(kobj->sd);
+ if (!dir_sd)
+ return -ENOENT;
+
+ for ((i = 0, attr = grp->attrs); *attr && !error; (++i, ++attr))
+ error = sysfs_add_file(dir_sd, *attr, SYSFS_KOBJ_ATTR);
+ if (error) {
+ while (--i >= 0)
+ sysfs_hash_and_remove(dir_sd, NULL, (*--attr)->name);
+ }
+ sysfs_put(dir_sd);
+
+ return error;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(sysfs_merge_group);
+
+/**
+ * sysfs_unmerge_group - remove files from a pre-existing attribute group.
+ * @kobj: The kobject containing the group.
+ * @grp: The files to remove and the attribute group they belong to.
+ */
+void sysfs_unmerge_group(struct kobject *kobj,
+ const struct attribute_group *grp)
+{
+ struct sysfs_dirent *dir_sd;
+ struct attribute *const *attr;
+
+ if (grp)
+ dir_sd = sysfs_get_dirent(kobj->sd, NULL, grp->name);
+ else
+ dir_sd = sysfs_get(kobj->sd);
+ if (dir_sd) {
+ for (attr = grp->attrs; *attr; ++attr)
+ sysfs_hash_and_remove(dir_sd, NULL, (*attr)->name);
+ sysfs_put(dir_sd);
+ }
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(sysfs_unmerge_group);
+
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(sysfs_create_group);
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(sysfs_update_group);