sysfs: Add sysfs_merge_group() and sysfs_unmerge_group()

This patch (as1420) adds sysfs_merge_group() and sysfs_unmerge_group()
functions, allowing drivers easily to add and remove sets of
attributes to a pre-existing attribute group directory.

Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>

1 files changed, 15 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/sysfs.h b/include/linux/sysfs.h
index 96eb576d82fd..30b881555fa5 100644
--- a/include/linux/sysfs.h
+++ b/include/linux/sysfs.h
@@ -164,6 +164,10 @@ int sysfs_add_file_to_group(struct kobject *kobj,
                         const struct attribute *attr, const char *group);
 void sysfs_remove_file_from_group(struct kobject *kobj,
                         const struct attribute *attr, const char *group);
+int sysfs_merge_group(struct kobject *kobj,
+                       const struct attribute_group *grp);
+void sysfs_unmerge_group(struct kobject *kobj,
+                       const struct attribute_group *grp);
 
 void sysfs_notify(struct kobject *kobj, const char *dir, const char *attr);
 void sysfs_notify_dirent(struct sysfs_dirent *sd);
@@ -302,6 +306,17 @@ static inline void sysfs_remove_file_from_group(struct kobject *kobj,
 {
 }
 
+static inline int sysfs_merge_group(struct kobject *kobj,
+                       const struct attribute_group *grp)
+{
+        return 0;
+}
+
+static inline void sysfs_unmerge_group(struct kobject *kobj,
+                       const struct attribute_group *grp)
+{
+}
+
 static inline void sysfs_notify(struct kobject *kobj, const char *dir,
                                 const char *attr)
 {