On Sun, 2005-03-27 at 23:08 +0200, Dominik Brodowski wrote: > On Sun, Mar 27, 2005 at 02:24:59PM -0500, Adam Belay wrote: > > One of the original design goals of sysfs was to provide a standardized > > location to keep driver configuration attributes. Although sysfs > > handles this very well for bus devices and class devices, there isn't > > currently a method to export attributes for device drivers and their > > specific bound device instances to userspace. You're right, I should have worded this differently. > > Drivers can add (e.g. in ->probe) attributes for devices using > extern int device_create_file(struct device *device, struct device_attribute > * entry); > and delete them (e.g. in ->remove) using > extern void device_remove_file(struct device * dev, struct device_attribute > * attr); > > and there's also > > extern int driver_create_file(struct device_driver *, struct > driver_attribute *); > extern void driver_remove_file(struct device_driver *, struct > driver_attribute *); > > > Dominik Yes, I'm aware of these functions but they pollute the bus level namespace. I'm interested in reactions to this alternative approach. I wanted to explore the possibility of making a device driver instance a separate component with its own individual state and relationships. Adam
