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

Jesse Barnes jbarnes at virtuousgeek.org
Tue Jan 24 19:59:36 EST 2012


On Tue, 24 Jan 2012 16:33:13 -0800
Greg KH <greg at kroah.com> wrote:

> 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?

No objection here, thanks guys.

-- 
Jesse Barnes, Intel Open Source Technology Center



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