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2007-10-30Driver Core: fix bug in device_rename() for SYSFS_DEPRECATED=yKay Sievers
This should fix the sysfs warnings that renaming network devices is causing to show up with CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED=y The code just shouldn't run if class devices are real directories, it's an update for the symlink in the class directory. Nobody noticed that as long as the creation of sysfs files silently failed, and we both missed it before the merge, because we don't run SYSFS_DEPRECATED=y. Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Cc: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net> Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> Cc: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-10-30Driver core: remove class_device_*_bin_fileGreg Kroah-Hartman
These functions are not used by anyone, so remove them from the tree. The class_device code will be removed soon anyway, so no future users will ever be possible. Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-10-22memory hotplug: rearrange memory hotplug notifierYasunori Goto
Current memory notifier has some defects yet. (Fortunately, nothing uses it.) This patch is to fix and rearrange for them. - Add information of start_pfn, nr_pages, and node id if node status is changes from/to memoryless node for callback functions. Callbacks can't do anything without those information. - Add notification going-online status. It is necessary for creating per node structure before the node's pages are available. - Move GOING_OFFLINE status notification after page isolation. It is good place for return memory like cache for callback, because returned page is not used again. - Make CANCEL events for rollingback when error occurs. - Delete MEM_MAPPING_INVALID notification. It will be not used. - Fix compile error of (un)register_memory_notifier(). Signed-off-by: Yasunori Goto <y-goto@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-18sparse pointer use of zero as nullStephen Hemminger
Get rid of sparse related warnings from places that use integer as NULL pointer. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> Cc: Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org> Cc: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-18cpu hotplug: topology: remove topology_dev_mapAkinobu Mita
By previous cpu hotplug notifier change, we don't need to track topology_dev existence for each cpu by topology_dev_map. Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com> Cc: Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-18pm_trace displays the wrong time from the RTCRafael J. Wysocki
The way in which read_magic_time() displays the date read from the RTC is apparently confusing to the users (cf. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=250238). Make it print dates in the standard way. Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> Acked-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-17make dmapool code use __set_current_state()Arjan van de Ven
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@Linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-16mm: add node states sysfs class attributeSLee Schermerhorn
Add a per node state sysfs class attribute file to /sys/devices/system/node to display node state masks. E.g., on a 4-cell HP ia64 NUMA platform, we have 5 nodes: 4 representing the actual hardware cells and one memory-only pseudo-node representing a small amount [512MB] of "hardware interleaved" memory. With this patch, in /sys/devices/system/node we see: #ls -1F /sys/devices/system/node has_cpu has_normal_memory node0/ node1/ node2/ node3/ node4/ online possible #cat /sys/devices/system/node/possible 0-255 #cat /sys/devices/system/node/online 0-4 #cat /sys/devices/system/node/has_normal_memory 0-4 #cat /sys/devices/system/node/has_cpu 0-3 Signed-off-by: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-16sparsemem: record when a section has a valid mem_mapAndy Whitcroft
We have flags to indicate whether a section actually has a valid mem_map associated with it. This is never set and we rely solely on the present bit to indicate a section is valid. By definition a section is not valid if it has no mem_map and there is a window during init where the present bit is set but there is no mem_map, during which pfn_valid() will return true incorrectly. Use the existing SECTION_HAS_MEM_MAP flag to indicate the presence of a valid mem_map. Switch valid_section{,_nr} and pfn_valid() to this bit. Add a new present_section{,_nr} and pfn_present() interfaces for those users who care to know that a section is going to be valid. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-syle fixes] Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org> Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-14more uevent fallout (drivers/base/memory.c)Al Viro
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-12PM: merge device power-management source filesAlan Stern
This patch (as993) merges the suspend.c and resume.c files in drivers/base/power into main.c, making some public symbols private. Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> Acked-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-10-12Driver core: rename ktype_driverGreg Kroah-Hartman
This makes it a bit more sane when trying to figure out how to clean up the ktype mess. Based on a larger patch from Kay Sievers Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-10-12Driver core: rename ktype_deviceGreg Kroah-Hartman
This makes it a bit more sane when trying to figure out how to clean up the ktype mess. Based on a larger patch from Kay Sievers Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-10-12Driver core: rename ktype_classGreg Kroah-Hartman
This makes it a bit more sane when trying to figure out how to clean up the ktype mess. Based on a larger patch from Kay Sievers Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-10-12driver core: remove subsystem_init()Greg Kroah-Hartman
There is only one user of it, and it is only a wrapper for kset_init(). Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-10-12Driver core: Make platform_device.id an intJean Delvare
While platform_device.id is a u32, platform_device_add() handles "-1" as a special id value. This has potential for confusion and bugs. Making it an int instead should prevent problems from happening in the future. Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-10-12sysdev: remove global sysdev drivers listAkinobu Mita
No one uses sysdev_drivers. Because no one calls sysdev_driver_register with NULL class. And it is difficult to imagine that someone want to implement a global sysdev driver which is called with all sys_device on any kind of sysdev_class. So this patch removes global sysdev_drivers list and update comments for this change. Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com> Cc: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com> Acked-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-10-12drivers/base/power/: make 2 functions staticAdrian Bunk
suspend_device() and resume_device() can now become static. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-10-12Fix Firmware class name collisionMarkus Rechberger
following patch fixes the i2c name collision with i2c-dev. http://mcentral.de/wiki/index.php/Bugtracker#i2c_core_problem This issue has been experienced with em28xx and saa7133 based devices. I discussed that problem with Jean Delvare a while ago and he proposed to add a prefix to the class name. Signed-off-by: Markus Rechberger <markus.rechberger@amd.com> Acked-by: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-10-12Driver core: add uevent file for bus and driverKay Sievers
This has been in the SuSE kernels for some time now. Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-10-12Driver core: exclude kobject_uevent.c for !CONFIG_HOTPLUGKay Sievers
Move uevent specific logic from the core into kobject_uevent.c, which does no longer require to link the unused string array if hotplug is not compiled in. Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-10-12Driver core: remove get_bus()Greg Kroah-Hartman
get_bus() should not be globally visable as it is not used by anything other than drivers/base/bus.c. This patch removes the visability of it, and renames it to match all of the other *_get() functions in the kernel. Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-10-12Driver core: remove put_bus()Greg Kroah-Hartman
put_bus() should not be globally visable as it is not used by anything other than drivers/base/bus.c. This patch removes the visability of it, and renames it to match all of the other *_put() functions in the kernel. Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-10-12Driver core: remove subsys_get()Greg Kroah-Hartman
There are no more subsystems, it's a kset now so remove the function and the only two users, which are in the driver core. Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-10-12Driver core: remove subsys_put()Greg Kroah-Hartman
There are no more subsystems, it's a kset now so remove the function and the only two users, which are in the driver core. Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-10-12Driver core: remove kset_set_kset_sGreg Kroah-Hartman
This macro is only used by the driver core and is held over from when we had subsystems. It is not needed anymore. Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-10-12Driver core: remove subsys_set_ksetGreg Kroah-Hartman
This macro is only used by the driver core and is held over from when we had subsystems. It is not needed anymore. Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-10-12Driver core: add CONFIG_UEVENT_HELPER_PATHKay Sievers
The kernel creates a process for every event that is send, even when there is no binary it could execute. We are needlessly creating around 200-300 failing processes during early bootup, until we have the chance to disable it from userspace. This change allows us to disable /sbin/hotplug entirely, if you want to, by setting UEVENT_HELPER_PATH="" in the kernel config. Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-10-12Driver core: change add_uevent_var to use a structKay Sievers
This changes the uevent buffer functions to use a struct instead of a long list of parameters. It does no longer require the caller to do the proper buffer termination and size accounting, which is currently wrong in some places. It fixes a known bug where parts of the uevent environment are overwritten because of wrong index calculations. Many thanks to Mathieu Desnoyers for finding bugs and improving the error handling. Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca> Cc: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-10-12Driver core: make sysfs uevent-attributes staticKay Sievers
Attributes do not have an owner(module) anymore, so there is no need to carry the attributes in every single bus instance. Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Acked-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-10-12platform: prefix MODALIAS with "platform:"Kay Sievers
Prefix platform modalias strings with "platform:", which modprobe config to blacklist alias resolving if userspace configures it. Send uevents for all platform devices. Add MODULE_ALIAS's to: pxa2xx_pcmcia, ds1742 and pcspkr to trigger module autoloading by userspace. $ modinfo pcspkr alias: platform:pcspkr license: GPL description: PC Speaker beeper driver ... $ modprobe -n -v platform:pcspkr insmod /lib/modules/2.6.23-rc3-g28e8351a-dirty/kernel/drivers/input/misc/pcspkr.ko Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Cc: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net> Cc: Atsushi Nemoto <anemo@mba.ocn.ne.jp> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-10-07Driver core: fix SYSF_DEPRECATED breakage for nested classdevsDmitry Torokhov
We should only reparent to a class former class devices that form the base of class hierarchy. Nested devices should still grow from their real parents. Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru> Tested-by: Andrey Borzenkov <arvidjaar@mail.ru> Tested-by: Anssi Hannula <anssi.hannula@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-09-26Add explicit zeroing to "envp" array in device 'show' methodLinus Torvalds
As Stephen Hemminger says, this is a "belt and suspenders" patch that zeroes the envp array at allocation time, even though all the users should NULL-terminate it anyway (and we've hopefully fixed everybody that doesn't do that). And we'll apparently clean the whole envp thing up for 2.6.24 anyway. But let's just be robust, and do both this *and* make sure that all users are doing the right thing. Acked-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org> Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-09-19Driver core: fix deprectated sysfs structure for nested class devicesDmitry Torokhov
Nested class devices used to have 'device' symlink point to a real (physical) device instead of a parent class device. When converting subsystems to struct device we need to keep doing what class devices did if CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED is Y, otherwise parts of udev break. Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru> Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Acked-by: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> Tested-by: Anssi Hannula <anssi.hannula@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-31CPU online file permissionUlrich Drepper
Is there a reason why the "online" file in the subdirectories for the CPUs in /sys/devices/system isn't world-readable? I cannot imagine it to be security relevant especially now that a getcpu() syscall can be used to determine what CPUa thread runs on. The file is useful to correctly implement the sysconf() function to return the number of online CPUs. In the presence of hotplug we currently cannot provide this information. The patch below should to it. Signed-off-by: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-30driver core: revert "device" link creation checkCornelia Huck
driver core: revert "device" link creation check Commit 2ee97caf0a6602f749ddbfdb1449e383e1212707 introduced an extra check on when to create the "device" symlink. Unfortunately, this breaks input, so let's revert to the old behaviour. Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com> Acked-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-07-30kernel-doc fixes for PCI and drivers/base/Randy Dunlap
Fix undocumented function parameters in PCI and drivers/base. Warning(linux-2.6.23-rc1//drivers/pci/pci.c:1526): No description found for parameter 'rq' Warning(linux-2.6.23-rc1//drivers/base/firmware_class.c:245): No description found for parameter 'bin_attr' Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-07-30kobject: put kobject_actions in kobject.hGreg Kroah-Hartman
This prevents the extern declaration in the driver core. Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-07-29Introduce CONFIG_SUSPEND for suspend-to-Ram and standbyRafael J. Wysocki
Introduce CONFIG_SUSPEND representing the ability to enter system sleep states, such as the ACPI S3 state, and allow the user to choose SUSPEND and HIBERNATION independently of each other. Make HOTPLUG_CPU be selected automatically if SUSPEND or HIBERNATION has been chosen and the kernel is intended for SMP systems. Also, introduce CONFIG_PM_SLEEP which is automatically selected if CONFIG_SUSPEND or CONFIG_HIBERNATION is set and use it to select the code needed for both suspend and hibernation. The top-level power management headers and the ACPI code related to suspend and hibernation are modified to use the new definitions (the changes in drivers/acpi/sleep/main.c are, mostly, moving code to reduce the number of ifdefs). There are many other files in which CONFIG_PM can be replaced with CONFIG_PM_SLEEP or even with CONFIG_SUSPEND, but they can be updated in the future. Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-26Fix ThinkPad T42 poweroff failure introduced by by "PM: Introduce ↵Rafael J. Wysocki
pm_power_off_prepare" Commit bd804eba1c8597cbb7cd5a5f9fe886aae16a079a ("PM: Introduce pm_power_off_prepare") caused problems in the poweroff path, as reported by YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明. Generally, sysdev_shutdown() should be called after the ACPI preparation for powering the system off. To make it happen, we can separate sysdev_shutdown() from device_shutdown() and call it directly wherever necessary. Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> Tested-by: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明 <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-21x86: PM_TRACE supportNigel Cunningham
Signed-off-by: Nigel Cunningham <nigel@nigel.suspend2.net> Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl> Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-19PM: Do not require dev spew to get PM_DEBUGBen Collins
In order to enable things like PM_TRACE, you're required to enable PM_DEBUG, which sends a large spew of messages on boot, and often times can overflow dmesg buffer. Create new PM_VERBOSE and shift that to be the option that enables drivers/base/power's messages. Signed-off-by: Ben Collins <bcollins@ubuntu.com> Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl> Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-18Driver core: check return code of sysfs_create_link()Cornelia Huck
Check for return value of sysfs_create_link() in device_add() and device_rename(). Add helper functions device_add_class_symlinks() and device_remove_class_symlinks() to make the code easier to read. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix unused var warnings] Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com> Acked-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-07-18PM: remove deprecated dpm_runtime_* routinesAlan Stern
This patch (as933) removes the deprecated dpm_runtime_suspend() and dpm_runtime_resume() routines from the PM core. The only user of those routines is the PCMCIA ds driver; local replacements are added. Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> CC: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-07-18PM: Remove deprecated sysfs filesAlan Stern
This patch (as932) removes the deprecated sysfs .../power/state attribute files. Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-07-18Driver core: accept all valid action-strings in uevent-triggerKay Sievers
This allows the uevent file to handle any type of uevent action to be triggered by userspace instead of just the "add" uevent. Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-07-16dma: make dma pool to use kmalloc_nodeYinghai Lu
Using dev_to_node(&dev->dev) to get node, and kmalloc_node to dma buffer on corresponding node dma pool Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai.lu@sun.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-11sysfs: add parameter "struct bin_attribute *" in .read/.write methods for ↵Zhang Rui
sysfs binary attributes Well, first of all, I don't want to change so many files either. What I do: Adding a new parameter "struct bin_attribute *" in the .read/.write methods for the sysfs binary attributes. In fact, only the four lines change in fs/sysfs/bin.c and include/linux/sysfs.h do the real work. But I have to update all the files that use binary attributes to make them compatible with the new .read and .write methods. I'm not sure if I missed any. :( Why I do this: For a sysfs attribute, we can get a pointer pointing to the struct attribute in the .show/.store method, while we can't do this for the binary attributes. I don't know why this is different, but this does make it not so handy to use the binary attributes as the regular ones. So I think this patch is reasonable. :) Who benefits from it: The patch that exposes ACPI tables in sysfs requires such an improvement. All the table binary attributes share the same .read method. Parameter "struct bin_attribute *" is used to get the table signature and instance number which are used to distinguish different ACPI table binary attributes. Without this parameter, we need to offer different .read methods for different ACPI table binary attributes. This is impossible as there are various ACPI tables on different platforms, and we don't know what they are until they are loaded. Signed-off-by: Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-07-11driver-core: make devt_attr and uevent_attr staticTejun Heo
devt_attr and uevent_attr are either allocated dynamically with or embedded in device and class_device as they needed their owner field set to the module implementing the driver. Now that sysfs implements immediate disconnect and owner field removed from struct attribute, there is no reason to do this. Remove these attributes from [class_]device and use static attribute structures instead. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-07-11sysfs: kill unnecessary attribute->ownerTejun Heo
sysfs is now completely out of driver/module lifetime game. After deletion, a sysfs node doesn't access anything outside sysfs proper, so there's no reason to hold onto the attribute owners. Note that often the wrong modules were accounted for as owners leading to accessing removed modules. This patch kills now unnecessary attribute->owner. Note that with this change, userland holding a sysfs node does not prevent the backing module from being unloaded. For more info regarding lifetime rule cleanup, please read the following message. http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/510293 (tweaked by Greg to not delete the field just yet, to make it easier to merge things properly.) Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com> Cc: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>