sysfs: Use only return value from is_visible for the file mode
Up to now, is_visible can only be used to either remove visibility
of a file entirely or to add permissions, but not to reduce permissions.
This makes it impossible, for example, to use DEVICE_ATTR_RW to define
file attributes and reduce permissions to read-only.
This behavior is undesirable and unnecessarily complicates code which
needs to reduce permissions; instead of just returning the desired
permissions, it has to ensure that the permissions in the attribute
variable declaration only reflect the minimal permissions ever needed.
Change semantics of is_visible to only use the permissions returned
from it instead of oring the returned value with the hard-coded
permissions.
Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Signed-off-by: Vivien Didelot <vivien.didelot@savoirfairelinux.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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