Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 22 Aug 2013 09:22:15 -0700 | From | Greg Kroah-Hartman <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] sysfs: add sysfs_create/remove_groups() |
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On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 10:55:19PM -0600, Anthony Foiani wrote: > Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> writes: > > > + * sysfs_create_groups - given a directory kobject, create a bunch of attribute groups > > + * @kobj: The kobject to create the group on > > + * @groups: The attribute groups to create, NULL terminated > > + * > > + * This function creates a bunch of attribute groups. If an error occurs when > > + * creating a group, all previously created groups will be removed, unwinding > > + * everything back to the original state when this function was called. > > + * It will explicitly warn and error if any of the attribute files being > > + * created already exist. > > + * > > + * Returns 0 on success or error code from sysfs_create_groups on error. > > "... from sysfs_create_group on error" > ^^^^^ (note singular, not plural) > > Otherwise it's a bit of a tautology...
Ah, thanks, will fix that up.
> Maybe rename to "sysfs_(create|remove)_multiple_groups" (or > ..._many_groups) to avoid this kind of one-char difference?
Nah, terse is good :)
> > + * sysfs_remove_groups - remove a list of groups > > + * > > + * kobj: The kobject for the groups to be removed from > > + * groups: NULL terminated list of groups to be removed > > + * > > + * If groups is not NULL, the all groups will be removed from the kobject > > "If groups is not NULL, remove listed groups from the kobject"
Nice, will go fix it up now, thanks.
> (I also played around with using pointer arithmetic instead of array > accesses for these two functions; it cut a few lines of code, but not > enough to bother, I don't think.)
Yeah, it's better to not be "tricky" so that others can review the code easier, and the end result would be the same.
thanks for the review.
greg k-h
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