This patch series introduces the new driver core API function device_create_groups(). device_create_groups() lets callers create devices as well as associated sysfs attributes with a single call. This avoids potential race conditions seen if sysfs attributes on new devices are created later. The rationale for the new API is that sysfs attributes should be created synchronously with device creation to avoid race conditions, as outlined in http://www.linuxfoundation.org/news-media/blogs/browse/2013/06/how-create-sysfs-file-correctly. Unfortunately, the only API function to create a device dynamically is device_create, which does not support the notion of adding sysfs attributes when creating a device. The new API call is similar but lets the caller provide a list of sysfs attribute groups. The first patch in the series introduces the new driver core API function. The second patch introduces hwmon_device_register_groups(), which uses the new API call. The remaining patches convert some hwmon drivers to use the new API to show and test its use. _______________________________________________ lm-sensors mailing list lm-sensors@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.lm-sensors.org/mailman/listinfo/lm-sensors
