Re: Sysfs and suicidal attributes

Cornelia Huck
2007-07-10T10:50:15Z

On Tue, 10 Jul 2007 18:13:43 +0900,
Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com> wrote:

> More like "device unregistering itself from its attribute" vs. "whatever
> else".

Ah, ok. I don't think we can make those the same, but "trigger an
action and return" vs. "whatever else" may be possible.

>
> >>> A general immediate disconnect of the buffers (which will be handled in
> >>> a second pass) would be great, but doesn't sound easy.
> >> I haven't thought too hard about actual implementation but it's pretty
> >> specific case. If doing things in generic manner is difficult, there
> >> are plenty of shortcuts to choose from, I think.
> >
> > The "second pass" approach where the store method calls the sysfs core
> > or sets a flag or whatever sounds doable, but I'm not sure how general
> > we can get. Maybe for all store methods that just trigger an action.
>
> Hmm... I'll give it a shot in a few days.

Cool. I'd try myself, but I'm currently a bit short on time :)