Up to now, is_visible can only be used to either remove visibility of a file entirely or to add permissions, but not to reduce permissions. This makes it impossible, for example, to use DEVICE_ATTR_RW to define file attributes and reduce permissions to read-only.
This behavior is undesirable and unnecessarily complicates code which needs to reduce permissions; instead of just returning the desired permissions, it has to ensure that the permissions in the attribute variable declaration only reflect the minimal permissions ever needed. Change semantics of is_visible to only use the permissions returned from it instead of oring the returned value with the hard-coded permissions. The code now dumps a warning to the console if an is_visible function returns unexpected permissions. Also document struct attribute_group. Tested with v3.19-rc5. -- 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/
