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(p200300ea8f457100cde55d758598b64f.dip0.t-ipconnect.de. [2003:ea:8f45:7100:cde5:5d75:8598:b64f]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id 5b1f17b1804b1-4b76cb75913sm124864075e9.0.2026.11.08.08.12.22 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 bits=128/128); Sun, 08 Nov 2026 08:12:22 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <62fcd666-ea7d-465c-87e3-9a15afd25624@gmail.com> Date: Sun, 8 Nov 2026 17:12:21 +0100 X-Mailing-List: driver-core@lists.linux.dev List-Id: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: List-Owner: Precedence: list MIME-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 0/2] sysfs: facilitate creating an empty directory From: Heiner Kallweit To: David Miller , Andrew Lunn , Eric Dumazet , Jakub Kicinski , Simon Horman , Greg Kroah-Hartman , "Rafael J. Wysocki" , Danilo Krummrich , Johan Hovold , Paolo Abeni Cc: "netdev@vger.kernel.org" , driver-core@lists.linux.dev References: <0a0a7987-abb2-49c8-bc16-3938233ae9c5@gmail.com> Content-Language: en-US In-Reply-To: <0a0a7987-abb2-49c8-bc16-3938233ae9c5@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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