Re: [PATCH v2 13/18] sysfs: Allow bin_attributes to be added to groups

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2024-07-04T10:13:25Z

On Sun, Jun 30, 2024 at 09:48:00PM +0200, Lukas Wunner wrote:
> Commit dfa87c824a9a ("sysfs: allow attributes to be added to groups")
> introduced dynamic addition of sysfs attributes to groups.
>
> Allow the same for bin_attributes, in support of a subsequent commit
> which adds various bin_attributes every time a PCI device is
> authenticated.
>
> Addition of bin_attributes to groups differs from regular attributes in
> that different kernfs_ops are selected by sysfs_add_bin_file_mode_ns()
> vis-à-vis sysfs_add_file_mode_ns().
>
> So call either of those two functions from sysfs_add_file_to_group()
> based on an additional boolean parameter and add two wrapper functions,
> one for bin_attributes and another for regular attributes.
>
> Removal of bin_attributes from groups does not require a differentiation
> for bin_attributes and can use the same code path as regular attributes.
>
> Signed-off-by: Lukas Wunner <lukas@wunner.de>
> Cc: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>

Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>