On Monday, January 21, 2013 12:58:20 PM Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 02:06:27PM +0100, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > > From: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wyso...@intel.com> > > > > The most convenient way to expose ACPI power resources lists of a > > device is to put symbolic links to sysfs directories representing > > those resources into special attribute groups in the device's sysfs > > directory. For this purpose, it is necessary to be able to add > > symbolic links to attribute groups. > > > > For this reason, add sysfs helper functions for adding/removing > > symbolic links to/from attribute groups, sysfs_add_link_to_group() > > and sysfs_remove_link_from_group(), respectively. > > Those functions are fine, but why sysfs_add_link()?
Do you mean the helper? I couldn't invent a better name. :-) Would sysfs_create_link_sd() be better? > It looks identical to sysfs_create_link(), why would you call one and not > the other? Because sysfs_create_link() takes a kobject as the first argument and I want a sysfs_dirent. > Why would anything outside of the sysfs core code ever have a pointer to a > sysfs_dirent? I don't see a reason and that sysfs_add_link() really is internal (it shouldn't be exported then, yes). I need to make a link from an attribute group under a kobject and not from the kobject itself, that's all. Thanks, Rafael -- I speak only for myself. Rafael J. Wysocki, Intel Open Source Technology Center. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
