Hi Greg,
On Sun, Sep 26, 2021 at 01:32:16PM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 26, 2021 at 01:19:08PM +0200, Len Baker wrote:
>
> > @@ -3161,9 +3106,7 @@ static void hotkey_exit(void)
> > hotkey_poll_stop_sync();
> > mutex_unlock(&hotkey_mutex);
> > #endif
> > -
> > - if (hotkey_dev_attributes)
> > - delete_attr_set(hotkey_dev_attributes, &tpacpi_pdev->dev.kobj);
> > + sysfs_remove_group(&tpacpi_pdev->dev.kobj, &hotkey_attr_group);
>
> Why do you have to manually add/remove these groups still?
>
> A huge hint that something is going wrong is when you have to call a
> sysfs_*() call from within a driver. There should be proper driver_*()
> calls for you instead to get the job done.
>
> As this is a platform device, why not set the dev_groups variable in the
> platform_driver field so that these attribute groups get added and
> removed automatically?
>
> An example commit to look at that shows how this was converted for one
> driver is 5bd08a4ae3d0 ("platform: x86: hp-wmi: convert platform driver
> to use dev_groups"). See if that helps here as well.
Ok, I will look at this and I will try to improve the patch. Anyway thanks
for the guidance and advices.
Again, thanks for your time.
Regards,
Len
