Re: [PATCH] sysfs: add filter function to groups

[James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>]

On Mon, 2007-10-29 at 18:58 +0100, Stefan Richter wrote:
> James Bottomley wrote:
> >> >  struct attribute_group {
> >> >  	const char		*name;
> >> > +	int			(*filter_show)(struct kobject *, int);
> 
> > Actually, it returns a true/false value indicating whether the given
> > attribute should be displayed.
> 
> How about this:
> 
> 	int (*is_visible)(...);
> or
> 	bool (*shall_be_shown)(...);
> or
> 	bool (*should_be_displayed)(...);
> 
> or whatever, so that it indicates that this function merely answers a
> question, but doesn't filter nor show anything.

Actually, as long as it's descriptive, I really don't care about the
name.  Can we all agree on "is_visible"?

James