On 09/01/2013 06:38 PM, Ian Pilcher wrote:
> I am trying to add an additional sysfs attribute to a device (LED) that
> is created by another driver. (My ultimate goal is to provide a way for
> a userspace application to use the functionality provided by
> led_blink_set, which doesn't currently seem to be possible.)
Turns out it is possible, with the LED timer trigger, so this issue is
now moot.
>
> The kernel module code that sets up all the GPIOs & LEDs in my NAS is
> at:
>
> http://pastebin.com/TJZGww8T
>
> The call to device_create_file is at line 373.
>
> device_create_file is returning 0, but the "foo" attribute is not being
> created. ("find /sys -name '*foo*'" doesn't find anything, so I'm not
> just looking in the wrong place.)
Still rather odd that it doesn't work, however, since ledtrig-timer.c
seems to do pretty much the same thing. Oh well.
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