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authorGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>2006-06-28 16:19:58 -0700
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>2006-09-25 21:08:38 -0700
commit64bb5d2c116478dba7501d2acf078ed74ba30c1f (patch)
treebd0f695cad51a0b9608d686ab2b0232a31d4b2ad /drivers
parentde0ff00d723fd821d372496e2c084805644aa5e1 (diff)
Driver core: allow devices in classes to have no parent
This fixes an oops when a device is attached to a class, yet has no "parent" device. An example of this would be the "lo" device in the network core. We should create a "virtual" subdirectory under /sys/devices/ for these, but no one seems to agree on a proper name for it yet... Oh, and update my copyright on the driver core. Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers')
-rw-r--r--drivers/base/core.c21
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/base/core.c b/drivers/base/core.c
index 641c0c42bb4..5c91d0d81e7 100644
--- a/drivers/base/core.c
+++ b/drivers/base/core.c
@@ -3,6 +3,8 @@
*
* Copyright (c) 2002-3 Patrick Mochel
* Copyright (c) 2002-3 Open Source Development Labs
+ * Copyright (c) 2006 Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
+ * Copyright (c) 2006 Novell, Inc.
*
* This file is released under the GPLv2
*
@@ -373,10 +375,11 @@ int device_add(struct device *dev)
"subsystem");
sysfs_create_link(&dev->class->subsys.kset.kobj, &dev->kobj,
dev->bus_id);
-
- sysfs_create_link(&dev->kobj, &dev->parent->kobj, "device");
- class_name = make_class_name(dev->class->name, &dev->kobj);
- sysfs_create_link(&dev->parent->kobj, &dev->kobj, class_name);
+ if (parent) {
+ sysfs_create_link(&dev->kobj, &dev->parent->kobj, "device");
+ class_name = make_class_name(dev->class->name, &dev->kobj);
+ sysfs_create_link(&dev->parent->kobj, &dev->kobj, class_name);
+ }
}
if ((error = device_add_groups(dev)))
@@ -495,8 +498,10 @@ void device_del(struct device * dev)
sysfs_remove_link(&dev->kobj, "subsystem");
sysfs_remove_link(&dev->class->subsys.kset.kobj, dev->bus_id);
class_name = make_class_name(dev->class->name, &dev->kobj);
- sysfs_remove_link(&dev->kobj, "device");
- sysfs_remove_link(&dev->parent->kobj, class_name);
+ if (parent) {
+ sysfs_remove_link(&dev->kobj, "device");
+ sysfs_remove_link(&dev->parent->kobj, class_name);
+ }
kfree(class_name);
down(&dev->class->sem);
list_del_init(&dev->node);
@@ -625,10 +630,6 @@ struct device *device_create(struct class *class, struct device *parent,
if (class == NULL || IS_ERR(class))
goto error;
- if (parent == NULL) {
- printk(KERN_WARNING "%s does not work yet for NULL parents\n", __FUNCTION__);
- goto error;
- }
dev = kzalloc(sizeof(*dev), GFP_KERNEL);
if (!dev) {