sysfs: consolidate sysfs_dirent creation functions

Currently there are four functions to create sysfs_dirent -
__sysfs_new_dirent(), sysfs_new_dirent(), __sysfs_make_dirent() and
sysfs_make_dirent().  Other than sysfs_make_dirent(), no function has
two users if calls to implement other functions are excluded.

This patch consolidates sysfs_dirent creation functions into the
following two.

* sysfs_new_dirent() : allocate and initialize
* sysfs_attach_dirent() : attach to sysfs_dirent hierarchy and/or
			  associate with dentry

This simplifies interface and gives callers more flexibility.  This is
in preparation of object reference simplification.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/fs/sysfs/sysfs.h b/fs/sysfs/sysfs.h
index f4fdbbf..f8f49cc 100644
--- a/fs/sysfs/sysfs.h
+++ b/fs/sysfs/sysfs.h
@@ -20,8 +20,11 @@ extern int sysfs_create(struct dentry *, int mode, int (*init)(struct inode *));
 
 extern void release_sysfs_dirent(struct sysfs_dirent * sd);
 extern int sysfs_dirent_exist(struct sysfs_dirent *, const unsigned char *);
-extern int sysfs_make_dirent(struct sysfs_dirent *, struct dentry *, void *,
-				umode_t, int);
+extern struct sysfs_dirent *sysfs_new_dirent(void *element, umode_t mode,
+					     int type);
+extern void sysfs_attach_dirent(struct sysfs_dirent *sd,
+				struct sysfs_dirent *parent_sd,
+				struct dentry *dentry);
 
 extern int sysfs_add_file(struct dentry *, const struct attribute *, int);
 extern int sysfs_hash_and_remove(struct dentry * dir, const char * name);