iio: buffer: remove 'scan_el_attrs' attribute group from buffer struct

This field doesn't seem used. It seems that only 'buffer->attrs' was ever
used to extend sysfs attributes for an IIO buffer.

Moving forward, it may not make sense to keep it. This patch removes the
field and it's initialization code.

Since we want to rework IIO buffer, to be able to add more buffers per IIO
device, we will merge [somehow] the 'buffer' & 'scan_elements' groups, and
we will continue to add the attributes to the 'buffer' group.

Removing it here, will also make the rework here a bit smaller, since
this code will not be present.

Signed-off-by: Alexandru Ardelean <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Cameron <[email protected]>

Author: commodo

drivers/iio/industrialio-buffer.c

@@ -1283,11 +1283,6 @@ int iio_buffer_alloc_sysfs_and_mask(struct iio_dev *indio_dev)
 
 	indio_dev->groups[indio_dev->groupcounter++] = &buffer->buffer_group;
 
-	if (buffer->scan_el_attrs != NULL) {
-		attr = buffer->scan_el_attrs->attrs;
-		while (*attr++ != NULL)
-			attrcount_orig++;
-	}
 	attrcount = attrcount_orig;
 	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&buffer->scan_el_dev_attr_list);
 	channels = indio_dev->channels;
@@ -1325,9 +1320,6 @@ int iio_buffer_alloc_sysfs_and_mask(struct iio_dev *indio_dev)
 		ret = -ENOMEM;
 		goto error_free_scan_mask;
 	}
-	if (buffer->scan_el_attrs)
-		memcpy(buffer->scan_el_group.attrs, buffer->scan_el_attrs,
-		       sizeof(buffer->scan_el_group.attrs[0])*attrcount_orig);
 	attrn = attrcount_orig;
 
 	list_for_each_entry(p, &buffer->scan_el_dev_attr_list, l)

include/linux/iio/buffer_impl.h

@@ -94,12 +94,6 @@ struct iio_buffer {
 	unsigned int watermark;
 
 	/* private: */
-	/*
-	 * @scan_el_attrs: Control of scan elements if that scan mode
-	 * control method is used.
-	 */
-	struct attribute_group *scan_el_attrs;
-
 	/* @scan_timestamp: Does the scan mode include a timestamp. */
 	bool scan_timestamp;