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Re: hwmon: w83781d: Unused sysfs group w83781d_group_other

From Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: hwmon: w83781d: Unused sysfs group w83781d_group_other
Date 2017-01-03 05:30 +0100
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On 01/02/2017 01:49 PM, Alexey Khoroshilov wrote:
> Hello,
>
> w83781d.c contains a definition of sysfs group:
>
> static const struct attribute_group w83781d_group_other = {
> 	.attrs = w83781d_attributes_other,
> };
>
> the only usage of which is:
>
> static void w83781d_remove_files(struct device *dev)
> {
> 	...
> 	sysfs_remove_group(&dev->kobj, &w83781d_group_other);
> }
>
> So, it seems the group should be either created in w83781d_create_files() or removed completely.
> What do you think?
>

If you look very closely, you'll see that the attributes are created individually
using  device_create_file(). Given that, removing the group might not be such a
good idea.

Yes, this is messy. If you have the time, feel free to convert the driver to use
hwmon_device_register_with_groups() or, even better, hwmon_device_register_with_info().

Thanks,
Guenter

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hwmon: w83781d: Unused sysfs group w83781d_group_other Alexey Khoroshilov <khoroshilov@ispras.ru> - 2017-01-02 23:00 +0100
  Re: hwmon: w83781d: Unused sysfs group w83781d_group_other Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net> - 2017-01-03 05:30 +0100

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