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From: Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@gmail.com>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Andrew Lunn <andrew+netdev@lunn.ch>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
	Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>, Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@kernel.org>,
	Danilo Krummrich <dakr@kernel.org>,
	Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
Cc: "netdev@vger.kernel.org" <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
	driver-core@lists.linux.dev
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 0/2] sysfs: facilitate creating an empty directory
Date: Sun, 8 Nov 2026 17:12:21 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <62fcd666-ea7d-465c-87e3-9a15afd25624@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0a0a7987-abb2-49c8-bc16-3938233ae9c5@gmail.com>

On 08.11.2026 14:44, Heiner Kallweit wrote:
> We have use cases where an empty sysfs directory is created.
> This requires an attribute list consisting of only the sentinal entry.
> It takes only to modify one check to enable creating an empty directory
> with a NULL attribute list. Use the new feature in net sysfs.
> 
> Proposal: Apply through netdev tree, w/ ACK from sysfs core.
> 
> Heiner Kallweit (2):
>   sysfs: facilitate creating an empty directory
>   net sysfs: simplify creating empty wireless directory
> 
>  fs/sysfs/group.c     | 7 ++++---
>  net/core/net-sysfs.c | 5 -----
>  2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
> 

Will be replaced with patch to remove the deprecated wireless directory.
--
pw-bot: cr

      parent reply	other threads:[~2026-11-08 16:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-11-08 13:44 [PATCH net-next 0/2] sysfs: facilitate creating an empty directory Heiner Kallweit
2026-11-08 13:45 ` [PATCH net-next 1/2] " Heiner Kallweit
2026-11-08 14:06   ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2026-11-09 13:48   ` netdev-bot+sashiko
2026-11-08 13:46 ` [PATCH net-next 2/2] net sysfs: simplify creating empty wireless directory Heiner Kallweit
2026-11-08 14:06   ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2026-11-08 14:12     ` Heiner Kallweit
2026-11-08 14:21       ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2026-11-08 16:02         ` Heiner Kallweit
2026-11-09 13:48   ` netdev-bot+sashiko
2026-11-08 16:12 ` Heiner Kallweit [this message]

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