| Date | Tue, 10 Oct 2017 15:59:20 +0200 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v6 14/14] platform/x86: dell-smbios-wmi: introduce userspace interface |
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On Mon, Oct 09, 2017 at 05:51:52PM -0500, Mario Limonciello wrote: > + ret = device_create_file(&wdev->dev, &priv->req_buf_size_attr); > + if (ret) > + goto fail_create_sysfs;
Why isn't the "WMI core" creating this sysfs file? Why have per-driver sysfs files, making all of the different apis totally different? It's a "common" attribute that they are all going to have to provide, right?
That way you also don't race with userspace :)
thanks,
greg k-h
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