RFC-patch - make sysfs_create_group skip members with attr.mode ==0

[Jim Cromie]

Currently, code in hwmon/*.c uses sysfs_create_group less than it could.
A contributing reason is that many individual attr-files are created 
conditionally,
depending upon both underlying hardware, driver configuration, etc.

With proposed patch, the members of a group are conditionally created,
based upon the mode of the underlying attribute.  mode == 0 suppresses 
attr-file
creation, allowing run-time tweaks of compile-time defined groups.

The driver defining the group need only disable the unwanted members
before calling sysfs_create_group()  (theyre 'enabled' by initialization 
macros,
since thats the most useful default)

Specifically
- only group members are created conditionally,
   theres no effect on calls to device_create_file.
- only mode == 0 disables member creation,
   common values like  S_IWUSR | S_IRUGO have un-altered behavior.


Signed-off-by:  Jim Cromie  <jim.cromie@xxxxxxxxx>

$ diffstat diff.sys-grp-conditional-members
group.c |    3 ++-
1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff -ruNp -X dontdiff -X exclude-diffs try1/fs/sysfs/group.c try2/fs/sysfs/group.c
--- try1/fs/sysfs/group.c	2006-06-17 19:49:35.000000000 -0600
+++ try2/fs/sysfs/group.c	2006-08-17 10:06:26.000000000 -0600
@@ -32,7 +33,8 @@ static int create_files(struct dentry * 
	int error = 0;

	for (attr = grp->attrs; *attr && !error; attr++) {
-		error = sysfs_add_file(dir, *attr, SYSFS_KOBJ_ATTR);
+		if ((*attr)->mode)
+			error = sysfs_add_file(dir, *attr, SYSFS_KOBJ_ATTR);
	}
	if (error)
		remove_files(dir,grp);


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