Re: [PATCH 0/5] I8K driver facelift

[Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>]

On Thu, Mar 17, 2005 at 01:40:48AM -0500, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> On Wednesday 16 March 2005 16:38, Frank Sorenson wrote:
> > Okay, I replaced the sysfs_ops with ops of my own, and now all the show
> > and store functions also accept the name of the attribute as a parameter.
> > This lets the functions know what attribute is being accessed, and allows
> > us to create attributes that share show and store functions, so things
> > don't need to be defined at compile time (I feel slightly evil!).
> 
> Hrm, can we be a little more explicit and not poke in the sysfs guts right
> in the driver? What do you think about the patch below athat implements
> "attribute arrays"? And I am attaching cumulative i8k patch using these
> arrays so they can be tested.
> 
> I am CC-ing Greg to see what he thinks about it.

Hm, I think it's proably of limited use, right?  What other code would
want this (the i2c sensor code doesn't, as it's naming scheme is
different.)

What drivers _do_ want is a way to create attributes on the fly easily,
and be able to have a "private" pointer to determine easier what file
was opened (to allow a single file handler, instead of the current
one-per-attribute type).

thanks,

greg k-h