Re: [PATCH v3 1/6] ACPI: dock: convert sysfs attributes to an attribute_group

[Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>]

Hi Alex,

On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 03:14:59PM -0600, Alex Chiang wrote:
> As suggested by Dmitry Torokhov, convert the individual sysfs
> attributes into an attribute group.
> 
> This change eliminates quite a bit of copy/paste code in the
> error handling paths.
> 

Looks much better, one more suggestion though:

> +err_unregister:
> +	printk(KERN_ERR "%s encountered error %d\n", __func__, ret);

If you want to print error this it should probably go down, right before
"return ret".

> +	sysfs_remove_group(&dock_device->dev.kobj, &dock_attribute_group);

It begs another label right here. There are cases when yo0u already
registered the platform device but haven't added the sysfs group, right?

>  	platform_device_unregister(dock_device);
> +out:
>  	kfree(dock_station);
>  	dock_station = NULL;
>  	return ret;
> @@ -1076,11 +1046,7 @@ static int dock_remove(struct dock_station *dock_station)
>  	    kfree(dd);
>  
>  	/* cleanup sysfs */
> -	device_remove_file(&dock_device->dev, &dev_attr_type);
> -	device_remove_file(&dock_device->dev, &dev_attr_docked);
> -	device_remove_file(&dock_device->dev, &dev_attr_undock);
> -	device_remove_file(&dock_device->dev, &dev_attr_uid);
> -	device_remove_file(&dock_device->dev, &dev_attr_flags);
> +	sysfs_remove_group(&dock_device->dev.kobj, &dock_attribute_group);
>  	platform_device_unregister(dock_device);
>  
>  	/* free dock station memory */
> 

-- 
Dmitry