On Wed, Jul 07, 2010 at 01:11:34PM -0500, Greg KH wrote:
> > > Why do you need it? What is calling that function? What am I missing
> > > here?
> >
> > The function 'pci_create_smbiosname_file' below is calling the .test method.
> > For every pdev the function checks if it has a SMBIOS string associated
> > with it or not. If there is no string (and instance) associated, then the
> > attributes 'label' and 'instance' are not created for that pdev.
> > To check for the existance of the string, the .test method is needed and
> > it is not available in 'struct device_attribute'. It provides
> > .show and .store. We need a .show and .test. So we defined
>
> {sigh}
>
> So, you just reinvented the is_visible function in struct
> attribute_group? Please use the infrastructure already available to do
> this, it saves on code and debugging and review time.
I'll take the blame for this. I recommended Narendra use the .test
method, as this is what I did back in 2005 in drivers/firmware/edd.c
which was one of the earliest consumers of the new sysfs code. James
added the is_visible field to attribute groups in 2008, which I
missed (only 3 drivers make use of it, so it was easy to miss). Since
that's the "new" preferred way to do it, we can adjust this patch
accordingly.
Thanks,
Matt
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Matt Domsch
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