Messages in this thread | | | From | David Howells <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] dvb: Allow MAC addresses to be mapped to stable device names with udev | Date | Wed, 31 Oct 2018 11:19:28 +0000 |
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Sean Young <sean@mess.org> wrote:
> > > Devices without a mac address shouldn't have a mac_dvb sysfs attribute, > > > I think. > > > > I'm not sure that's possible within the core infrastructure. It's a class > > attribute set when the class is created; I'm not sure it can be overridden on > > a per-device basis. > > > > Possibly the file could return "" or "none" in this case? > > That's very ugly. Have a look at, for example, rc-core wakeup filters: > > https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/drivers/media/rc/rc-main.c#n1844
By analogy, then, I think the thing to do is to put something like struct rc_dev::sysfs_groups[] into struct dvb_device (or maybe struct dvb_adapter) and then the dvb_mac attribute in there during dvb_register_device() based on whether or not the MAC address is not all zeros at that point.
David
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