[SCSI] sysfs: add filter function to groups

This patch allows the various users of attribute_groups to selectively
allow the appearance of group attributes.  The primary consumer of
this will be the transport classes in which we currently have
elaborate attribute selection algorithms to do this same thing.

Acked-by: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>

1 files changed, 16 insertions, 10 deletions

diff --git a/fs/sysfs/group.c b/fs/sysfs/group.c
index d1972374655a..0871c3dadce1 100644
--- a/fs/sysfs/group.c
+++ b/fs/sysfs/group.c
@@ -16,25 +16,31 @@
 #include "sysfs.h"
 
 
-static void remove_files(struct sysfs_dirent *dir_sd,
+static void remove_files(struct sysfs_dirent *dir_sd, struct kobject *kobj,
                          const struct attribute_group *grp)
 {
         struct attribute *const* attr;
+        int i;
 
-        for (attr = grp->attrs; *attr; attr++)
-                sysfs_hash_and_remove(dir_sd, (*attr)->name);
+        for (i = 0, attr = grp->attrs; *attr; i++, attr++)
+                if (!grp->is_visible ||
+                    grp->is_visible(kobj, *attr, i))
+                        sysfs_hash_and_remove(dir_sd, (*attr)->name);
 }
 
-static int create_files(struct sysfs_dirent *dir_sd,
+static int create_files(struct sysfs_dirent *dir_sd, struct kobject *kobj,
                         const struct attribute_group *grp)
 {
         struct attribute *const* attr;
-        int error = 0;
+        int error = 0, i;
 
-        for (attr = grp->attrs; *attr && !error; attr++)
-                error = sysfs_add_file(dir_sd, *attr, SYSFS_KOBJ_ATTR);
+        for (i = 0, attr = grp->attrs; *attr && !error; i++, attr++)
+                if (!grp->is_visible ||
+                    grp->is_visible(kobj, *attr, i))
+                        error |=
+                                sysfs_add_file(dir_sd, *attr, SYSFS_KOBJ_ATTR);
         if (error)
-                remove_files(dir_sd, grp);
+                remove_files(dir_sd, kobj, grp);
         return error;
 }
 
@@ -54,7 +60,7 @@ int sysfs_create_group(struct kobject * kobj,
         } else
                 sd = kobj->sd;
         sysfs_get(sd);
-        error = create_files(sd, grp);
+        error = create_files(sd, kobj, grp);
         if (error) {
                 if (grp->name)
                         sysfs_remove_subdir(sd);
@@ -75,7 +81,7 @@ void sysfs_remove_group(struct kobject * kobj,
         } else
                 sd = sysfs_get(dir_sd);
 
-        remove_files(sd, grp);
+        remove_files(sd, kobj, grp);
         if (grp->name)
                 sysfs_remove_subdir(sd);