Re: Creation of driver-specific sysfs attributes

From: Greg KH
Date: Wed Jul 07 2004 - 16:53:02 EST


On Wed, Jul 07, 2004 at 12:21:06PM -0300, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> Hi Greg, others,
>
> Hope this is not a FAQ.
>
> I want to export some read-only attributes (statistics) from cyclades.c char
> driver to userspace via sysfs.
>
> I can't figure out the right place to do it - I could create a class under
> /sys/class/cyclades for example, but that doesnt sound right since this
> is not a "class" of device, but a device itself.

For a driver only attribute, you want them to show up in the place for
the driver (like under /sys/bus/pci/driver/MY_FOO_DRIVER/). To do that
use the DRIVER_ATTR() and the driver_add_file() functions. For
examples, see the other drivers that use these functions.

Hope this helps,

greg k-h
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