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-rw-r--r--drivers/base/class.c32
-rw-r--r--include/linux/device.h2
2 files changed, 34 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/base/class.c b/drivers/base/class.c
index 0e71dff327c..b1ea4df85c7 100644
--- a/drivers/base/class.c
+++ b/drivers/base/class.c
@@ -456,6 +456,35 @@ static void class_device_remove_attrs(struct class_device * cd)
}
}
+static int class_device_add_groups(struct class_device * cd)
+{
+ int i;
+ int error = 0;
+
+ if (cd->groups) {
+ for (i = 0; cd->groups[i]; i++) {
+ error = sysfs_create_group(&cd->kobj, cd->groups[i]);
+ if (error) {
+ while (--i >= 0)
+ sysfs_remove_group(&cd->kobj, cd->groups[i]);
+ goto out;
+ }
+ }
+ }
+out:
+ return error;
+}
+
+static void class_device_remove_groups(struct class_device * cd)
+{
+ int i;
+ if (cd->groups) {
+ for (i = 0; cd->groups[i]; i++) {
+ sysfs_remove_group(&cd->kobj, cd->groups[i]);
+ }
+ }
+}
+
static ssize_t show_dev(struct class_device *class_dev, char *buf)
{
return print_dev_t(buf, class_dev->devt);
@@ -559,6 +588,8 @@ int class_device_add(struct class_device *class_dev)
class_name);
}
+ class_device_add_groups(class_dev);
+
kobject_uevent(&class_dev->kobj, KOBJ_ADD);
/* notify any interfaces this device is now here */
@@ -672,6 +703,7 @@ void class_device_del(struct class_device *class_dev)
if (class_dev->devt_attr)
class_device_remove_file(class_dev, class_dev->devt_attr);
class_device_remove_attrs(class_dev);
+ class_device_remove_groups(class_dev);
kobject_uevent(&class_dev->kobj, KOBJ_REMOVE);
kobject_del(&class_dev->kobj);
diff --git a/include/linux/device.h b/include/linux/device.h
index f6e72a65a3f..e8e53b9accc 100644
--- a/include/linux/device.h
+++ b/include/linux/device.h
@@ -200,6 +200,7 @@ extern int class_device_create_file(struct class_device *,
* @node: for internal use by the driver core only.
* @kobj: for internal use by the driver core only.
* @devt_attr: for internal use by the driver core only.
+ * @groups: optional additional groups to be created
* @dev: if set, a symlink to the struct device is created in the sysfs
* directory for this struct class device.
* @class_data: pointer to whatever you want to store here for this struct
@@ -228,6 +229,7 @@ struct class_device {
struct device * dev; /* not necessary, but nice to have */
void * class_data; /* class-specific data */
struct class_device *parent; /* parent of this child device, if there is one */
+ struct attribute_group ** groups; /* optional groups */
void (*release)(struct class_device *dev);
int (*uevent)(struct class_device *dev, char **envp,