Attr Groups in sysfs.

[gaspa@yattaweb.it (Gasparini Andrea)]

Hi,

On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 4:14 PM, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> wrote:
>> I'm missing only the myattr_group name... anyone has a clue of how can
>> I access this?
>
> You can't.

ok.

>> And adding to my kobject this way:
>> ? ? retval = sysfs_create_group(mykobj, &my_attr_group_0);
>
> Ick, no, please don't do that, you want the group to be created before
> the device shows up to userspace, otherwise you just raced with
> userspace and bad things will happen.

Understand, you're completely right.
I'll try to refactor in a different way to avoid race.

> Why are you using a struct kobject directly and not a struct device
> instead? ?Please don't use kobjects unless you are doing something very
> strange, and even then, please reconsider.
>
> Care to explain what you are using sysfs for?

Sure, It's quite complicated, in fact ;)
I'm doing an "extension" for a video device, in terms of a module that
handle some addictional logic that do some sort of stats about the
stream passed through it.
For example, I've a certain number of areas inside a frame, given in
form of (x,y,width,heigth) that behave to the same device, so I'd like
to call them: mydev/region_{0,1,2...}/{x,y,width,height}

That's why I'd like to have the "region_0" name, so I can distinguish
between the right attribute group.

Too caotic perhaps? (suggestions and existing examples are obviuosly welcome)


> thanks,

Thank *you* ;)
bye
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-gaspa-