It makes no sense to expose this type of information to userspace unless the driver was explicitly loaded with the debug option. Signed-off-by: Mattia Dongili <malattia@xxxxxxxx> --- drivers/platform/x86/sony-laptop.c | 25 ++++++++++++++----------- 1 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/platform/x86/sony-laptop.c b/drivers/platform/x86/sony-laptop.c index 77646fc..c8d755a 100644 --- a/drivers/platform/x86/sony-laptop.c +++ b/drivers/platform/x86/sony-laptop.c @@ -773,11 +773,6 @@ static int sony_nc_handles_setup(struct platform_device *pd) if (!handles) return -ENOMEM; - sysfs_attr_init(&handles->devattr.attr); - handles->devattr.attr.name = "handles"; - handles->devattr.attr.mode = S_IRUGO; - handles->devattr.show = sony_nc_handles_show; - for (i = 0; i < ARRAY_SIZE(handles->cap); i++) { if (!acpi_callsetfunc(sony_nc_acpi_handle, "SN00", i + 0x20, &result)) { @@ -787,11 +782,18 @@ static int sony_nc_handles_setup(struct platform_device *pd) } } - /* allow reading capabilities via sysfs */ - if (device_create_file(&pd->dev, &handles->devattr)) { - kfree(handles); - handles = NULL; - return -1; + if (debug) { + sysfs_attr_init(&handles->devattr.attr); + handles->devattr.attr.name = "handles"; + handles->devattr.attr.mode = S_IRUGO; + handles->devattr.show = sony_nc_handles_show; + + /* allow reading capabilities via sysfs */ + if (device_create_file(&pd->dev, &handles->devattr)) { + kfree(handles); + handles = NULL; + return -1; + } } return 0; @@ -800,7 +802,8 @@ static int sony_nc_handles_setup(struct platform_device *pd) static int sony_nc_handles_cleanup(struct platform_device *pd) { if (handles) { - device_remove_file(&pd->dev, &handles->devattr); + if (debug) + device_remove_file(&pd->dev, &handles->devattr); kfree(handles); handles = NULL; } -- 1.7.4.1 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe platform-driver-x86" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html