Re: [PATCH v2 00/10] drivers, provide a way to add sysfs groups easily

Emil Velikov
2020-05-13T22:21:01Z

Hi Greg,

On Fri, 2 Aug 2019 at 11:46, Greg Kroah-Hartman
<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:

>
> I have now done this with patch 1/10. Here's the pull info if any
> subsystem maintainer wants to suck this into their tree to provide the
> ability for drivers to add/remove attribute groups easily.
>
> This is part of my driver-core tree now, and will go to Linus for
> 5.4-rc1, along with a few platform drivers that have been acked by their
> various subsystem maintainers that convert them to use this new
> functionality.
>
> If anyone has any questions about this, please let me know.
>
> thanks,
>
> greg k-h
>
> -------------------
>
> The following changes since commit 5f9e832c137075045d15cd6899ab0505cfb2ca4b:
>
> Linus 5.3-rc1 (2019-07-21 14:05:38 -0700)
>
> are available in the Git repository at:
>
> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core.git tags/dev_groups_all_drivers
>
> for you to fetch changes up to 23b6904442d08b7dbed7622ed33b236d41a3aa8b:
>
> driver core: add dev_groups to all drivers (2019-08-02 12:37:53 +0200)
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> dev_groups added to struct driver
>
> Persistent tag for others to pull this branch from
>
> This is the first patch in a longer series that adds the ability for the
> driver core to create and remove a list of attribute groups
> automatically when the device is bound/unbound from a specific driver.
>
> See:
> https://lore.kernel.org/r/20190731124349.4474-2-gregkh@linuxfoundation.org
> for details on this patch, and examples of how to use it in other
> drivers.
>
> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> Dmitry Torokhov (1):
> driver core: add dev_groups to all drivers
>
> drivers/base/dd.c | 14 ++++++++++++++
> include/linux/device.h | 3 +++
> 2 files changed, 17 insertions(+)
> _______________________________________________

Was planning to re-spin DRM a series which uses .dev_groups, although
I cannot see the core patch.
Did the it get reverted or simply fell though the cracks?

-Emil