Dear Greg KH, > On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 06:30:36PM +0200, Tomas Hlavacek wrote: > > Hello Greg! > > > > On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 5:06 PM, Greg KH <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > >> @@ -2355,6 +2373,14 @@ int uart_add_one_port(struct uart_driver *drv, > > >> struct uart_port *uport) > > >> > > >> } > > >> > > >> /* > > >> > > >> + * Expose uartclk in sysfs. Use driverdata of the tty device for > > >> + * referencing the UART port. > > >> + */ > > >> + dev_set_drvdata(tty_dev, port); > > >> + if (device_create_file(tty_dev, &dev_attr_uartclk) < 0) > > >> + dev_err(tty_dev, "Failed to add uartclk attr\n"); > > > > > > I think you just raced with userspace in creating the file after the > > > device was announced to userspace. Are you sure it's ok? > > > > > > If not (hint, I don't think so), please make it a default attribute of > > > the device, which will then cause the file to be created before it is > > > announced to userspace. It will also be less code as you don't have to > > > clean it up by hand :) > > > > Do you mean I should modify the tty_register_device() function not to > > use device_create() but it should rather do the device initialization > > on it's own. > > No, not at all. > > > And I should add add the attribute (via struct attribute_group) to > > struct device in between device_initialize() and device_add() calls. > > Did I get it right? > > No, make this a driver attribute, that way when the device is > registered, it adds the attribute automagically to the device that is > bound to it. (hint, DEVICE_ATTR), right ? > Does that make sense? > > greg k-h Best regards, Marek Vasut -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-serial" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
