[PATCH resend] Clean up new_id and remove_id sysfs attribute routines

[Greg KH]

On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 02:35:13PM -0500, Alan Stern wrote:
> This patch (as1514) cleans up some places where new_id and remove_id
> sysfs attributes are created and deleted.  Handling both attributes in
> a single routine rather than a pair of routines makes the code
> smaller.  It also prevents certain kinds of errors, like one we
> currently have in the USB subsystem: The removeid attribute is often
> created even when newid isn't (because the driver's no_dynamid_id flag
> is set).
> 
> In the case of the PCMCIA subsystem, the newid attribute is created
> but never explicitly deleted.  The patch adds a deletion routine.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern at rowland.harvard.edu>
> CC: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes at virtuousgeek.org>
> CC: Dominik Brodowski <linux at dominikbrodowski.net>

Jesse and Dominik, any objection for me to take this through my tree?

thanks,

greg k-h