Re: [PATCH v8 1/5] configfs: Allow dynamic group creation

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Thu Oct 22 2015 - 04:40:48 EST


On Tue, Oct 20, 2015 at 01:53:42PM +0300, Daniel Baluta wrote:
> We don't want to hardcode default groups at subsystem
> creation time. We export:
> * configfs_register_group
> * configfs_unregister_group
> to allow drivers to programatically create/destroy groups
> later, after module init time.
>
> This is needed for IIO configfs support.

This looks like a good start, and maybe we should merge it as is given
that merge window is about to end. But I have two requests, one trivial
and one not so:

a) please provide kerneldoc comments for the new functions
b) just pass the name and item type and dynamically allocate the
actua group. With that we can avoid a lot of boilerplate code and
could also replace the horrible static sized defaults_groups array
in current users with your new function.

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