Date: Mon, 14 May 2012 13:00:49 -0700
From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: H Hartley Sweeten <hartleys@visionengravers.com>
Cc: Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, devel@driverdev.osuosl.org,
        abbotti@mev.co.uk, fmhess@users.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging: comedi: register sysfs device attributes with
 driver core
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On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 06:05:28PM -0700, H Hartley Sweeten wrote:
> Currently the sysfs device attributes are created by the comedi
> core after each comedi device is created. This can lead to a race
> condition where userspace gets an add event before the files are
> created.
> 
> Register the device attributes with the comedi class so that the
> driver core handles creating them and we avoid the race.

Nice job, thanks for making this change.

greg k-h
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