Re: [RFC/PATCH] add support for sysdev class attributes

[Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>]

On Mon, Jan 10, 2005 at 09:58:03AM -0600, Nathan Lynch wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-01-07 at 21:07 -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Fri, Jan 07, 2005 at 04:28:12PM -0600, Nathan Lynch wrote:
> > > @@ -88,6 +123,12 @@ int sysdev_class_register(struct sysdev_
> > >  	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&cls->drivers);
> > >  	cls->kset.subsys = &system_subsys;
> > >  	kset_set_kset_s(cls, system_subsys);
> > > +
> > > +	/* I'm not going to claim to understand this; see
> > > +	 * fs/sysfs/file::check_perm for how sysfs_ops are selected
> > > +	 */
> > > +	cls->kset.kobj.ktype = &sysdev_class_ktype;
> > > +
> > 
> > I think you need to understand this, and then submit a patch without
> > such a comment :)
> > 
> > And probably without such code, as I don't think you need to do that.
> 
> Sure, now I'm not sure how I convinced myself that bit was needed.
> Things work fine without it.
> 
> Before I repatch, does sysdev_class_ktype need a release function?

Why would it not?

thanks,

greg k-h