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2008-07-21driver core: remove DEVICE_ID_SIZE defineGreg Kroah-Hartman
There is no such thing as a "device id size" in the driver core, so remove the define and fix up any users of this odd define in the rest of the kernel. Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-07-21driver core: remove DEVICE_NAME_SIZE defineKay Sievers
There is no such thing as a "device name size" in the driver core, so remove the define and fix up any users of this odd define in the rest of the kernel. Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-07-21driver core: remove KOBJ_NAME_LEN defineKay Sievers
Kobjects do not have a limit in name size since a while, so stop pretending that they do. Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-07-21class: add lockdep infrastructureMatthew Wilcox
This adds the infrastructure to properly handle lockdep issues when the internal class semaphore is changed to a mutex. Matthew wrote the original patch, and Greg fixed it up to work properly with the class_create() function. From: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx> Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Cc: Dave Young <hidave.darkstar@gmail.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-07-21class: move driver core specific parts to a private structureGreg Kroah-Hartman
This moves the portions of struct class that are dynamic (kobject and lock and lists) out of the main structure and into a dynamic, private, structure. Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-07-21Driver Core: add ability for class_find_device to start in middle of listGreg Kroah-Hartman
This mirrors the functionality that driver_find_device has as well. We add a start variable, and all callers of the function are fixed up at the same time. The block layer will be using this new functionality in a follow-on patch. Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-07-21Driver Core: add ability for class_for_each_device to start in middle of listGreg Kroah-Hartman
This mirrors the functionality that driver_for_each_device has as well. We add a start variable, and all callers of the function are fixed up at the same time. The block layer will be using this new functionality in a follow-on patch. Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-07-21device create: convert device_create_drvdata to device_createGreg Kroah-Hartman
Now that device_create() has been audited, rename things back to the original call to be sane. Keep the device_create_drvdata macro around to make merges easier. Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-07-21driver core: remove device_create()Greg Kroah-Hartman
There are no more users of this, and it is racy. Use device_create_drvdata() or device_create_vargs() instead. Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-07-21sysfs: add /sys/dev/{char,block} to lookup sysfs path by major:minorDan Williams
Why?: There are occasions where userspace would like to access sysfs attributes for a device but it may not know how sysfs has named the device or the path. For example what is the sysfs path for /dev/disk/by-id/ata-ST3160827AS_5MT004CK? With this change a call to stat(2) returns the major:minor then userspace can see that /sys/dev/block/8:32 links to /sys/block/sdc. What are the alternatives?: 1/ Add an ioctl to return the path: Doable, but sysfs is meant to reduce the need to proliferate ioctl interfaces into the kernel, so this seems counter productive. 2/ Use udev to create these symlinks: Also doable, but it adds a udev dependency to utilities that might be running in a limited environment like an initramfs. 3/ Do a full-tree search of sysfs. [kay.sievers@vrfy.org: fix duplicate registrations] [kay.sievers@vrfy.org: cleanup suggestions] Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Cc: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com> Acked-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Reviewed-by: SL Baur <steve@xemacs.org> Acked-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Acked-by: Mark Lord <lkml@rtr.ca> Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-06-10Introduce new top level suspend and hibernation callbacksRafael J. Wysocki
Introduce 'struct pm_ops' and 'struct pm_ext_ops' ('ext' meaning 'extended') representing suspend and hibernation operations for bus types, device classes, device types and device drivers. Modify the PM core to use 'struct pm_ops' and 'struct pm_ext_ops' objects, if defined, instead of the ->suspend(), ->resume(), ->suspend_late(), and ->resume_early() callbacks (the old callbacks will be considered as legacy and gradually phased out). The main purpose of doing this is to separate suspend (aka S2RAM and standby) callbacks from hibernation callbacks in such a way that the new callbacks won't take arguments and the semantics of each of them will be clearly specified. This has been requested for multiple times by many people, including Linus himself, and the reason is that within the current scheme if ->resume() is called, for example, it's difficult to say why it's been called (ie. is it a resume from RAM or from hibernation or a suspend/hibernation failure etc.?). The second purpose is to make the suspend/hibernation callbacks more flexible so that device drivers can handle more than they can within the current scheme. For example, some drivers may need to prevent new children of the device from being registered before their ->suspend() callbacks are executed or they may want to carry out some operations requiring the availability of some other devices, not directly bound via the parent-child relationship, in order to prepare for the execution of ->suspend(), etc. Ultimately, we'd like to stop using the freezing of tasks for suspend and therefore the drivers' suspend/hibernation code will have to take care of the handling of the user space during suspend/hibernation. That, in turn, would be difficult within the current scheme, without the new ->prepare() and ->complete() callbacks. Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> Signed-off-by: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
2008-05-29driver-core: prepare for 2.6.27 api change by adding dev_set_nameStephen Rothwell
Create the dev_set_name function now so that various subsystems can start changing over to it before other changes in 2.6.27 will make it compulsory. Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-05-20Driver core: add device_create_vargs and device_create_drvdataGreg Kroah-Hartman
We want to have the drvdata field set properly when creating the device as sysfs callbacks can assume it is present and it can race the later setting of this field. So, create two new functions, deviec_create_vargs() and device_create_drvdata() that take this new field. device_create_drvdata() will go away in 2.6.27 as the drvdata field will just be moved to the device_create() call as it should be. Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-05-14Driver core: struct class remove children listDave Young
because of the class_device was removed, now do the children list removing Signed-off-by: Dave Young <hidave.darkstar@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-05-02driver-core: add dev_name() to help transition away from using bus_idKay Sievers
Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-04-30driver core: remove no longer used "struct class_device"Kay Sievers
Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-04-21Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-2.6Linus Torvalds
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-2.6: (36 commits) SCSI: convert struct class_device to struct device DRM: remove unused dev_class IB: rename "dev" to "srp_dev" in srp_host structure IB: convert struct class_device to struct device memstick: convert struct class_device to struct device driver core: replace remaining __FUNCTION__ occurrences sysfs: refill attribute buffer when reading from offset 0 PM: Remove destroy_suspended_device() Firmware: add iSCSI iBFT Support PM: Remove legacy PM (fix) Kobject: Replace list_for_each() with list_for_each_entry(). SYSFS: Explicitly include required header file slab.h. Driver core: make device_is_registered() work for class devices PM: Convert wakeup flag accessors to inline functions PM: Make wakeup flags available whenever CONFIG_PM is set PM: Fix misuse of wakeup flag accessors in serial core Driver core: Call device_pm_add() after bus_add_device() in device_add() PM: Handle device registrations during suspend/resume block: send disk "change" event for rescan_partitions() sysdev: detect multiple driver registrations ... Fixed trivial conflict in include/linux/memory.h due to semaphore header file change (made irrelevant by the change to mutex).
2008-04-19PM: Remove destroy_suspended_device()Rafael J. Wysocki
After 2.6.24 there was a plan to make the PM core acquire all device semaphores during a suspend/hibernation to protect itself from concurrent operations involving device objects. That proved to be too heavy-handed and we found a better way to achieve the goal, but before it happened, we had introduced the functions device_pm_schedule_removal() and destroy_suspended_device() to allow drivers to "safely" destroy a suspended device and we had adapted some drivers to use them. Now that these functions are no longer necessary, it seems reasonable to remove them and modify their users to use the normal device unregistration instead. Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-04-19Driver core: make device_is_registered() work for class devicesGreg Kroah-Hartman
device_is_registered() can use the kobject value for this, so it will now work with devices that are associated with only a class, not a bus and a driver. Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-04-19PM: Convert wakeup flag accessors to inline functionsAlan Stern
This patch (as1058) improves the wakeup macros in include/linux/pm.h. All but the trivial ones are converted to inline routines, which requires moving them to a separate header file since they depend on the definition of struct device. Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-04-19driver core: Convert debug functions declared inline __attribute__((format ↵Joe Perches
(printf,x,y) to statement expression macros When DEBUG is not defined, pr_debug and dev_dbg and some other local debugging functions are specified as: "inline __attribute__((format (printf, x, y)))" This is done to validate printk arguments when not debugging. Converting these functions to macros or statement expressions "do { if (0) printk(fmt, ##arg); } while (0)" or "({ if (0) printk(fmt, ##arg); 0; }) makes at least gcc 4.2.2 produce smaller objects. This has the additional benefit of allowing the optimizer to avoid calling functions like print_mac that might have been arguments to the printk. defconfig x86 current: $ size vmlinux text data bss dec hex filename 4716770 474560 618496 5809826 58a6a2 vmlinux all converted: (More patches follow) $ size vmlinux text data bss dec hex filename 4716642 474560 618496 5809698 58a622 vmlinux Even kernel/sched.o, which doesn't even use these functions, becomes smaller. It appears that merely having an indirect include of <linux/device.h> can cause bigger objects. $ size sched.inline.o sched.if0.o text data bss dec hex filename 31385 2854 328 34567 8707 sched.inline.o 31366 2854 328 34548 86f4 sched.if0.o The current preprocessed only kernel/sched.i file contains: # 612 "include/linux/device.h" static inline __attribute__((always_inline)) int __attribute__ ((format (printf, 2, 3))) dev_dbg(struct device *dev, const char *fmt, ...) { return 0; } # 628 "include/linux/device.h" static inline __attribute__((always_inline)) int __attribute__ ((format (printf, 2, 3))) dev_vdbg(struct device *dev, const char *fmt, ...) { return 0; } Removing these unused inlines from sched.i shrinks sched.o Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-04-18Convert asm/semaphore.h users to linux/semaphore.hMatthew Wilcox
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@linux.intel.com>
2008-02-05iommu sg merging: add device_dma_parameters structureFUJITA Tomonori
IOMMUs merges scatter/gather segments without considering a low level driver's restrictions. The problem is that IOMMUs can't access to the limitations because they are in request_queue. This patchset introduces a new structure, device_dma_parameters, including dma information. A pointer to device_dma_parameters is added to struct device. The bus specific structures (like pci_dev) includes device_dma_parameters. Low level drivers can use dma_set_max_seg_size to tell IOMMUs about the restrictions. We can move more dma stuff in struct device (like dma_mask) to struct device_dma_parameters later (needs some cleanups before that). This includes patches for all the IOMMUs that could merge sg (x86_64, ppc, IA64, alpha, sparc64, and parisc) though only the ppc patch was tested. The patches for other IOMMUs are only compile tested. This patch: Add a new structure, device_dma_parameters, including dma information. A pointer to device_dma_parameters is added to struct device. - there are only max_segment_size and segment_boundary_mask there but we'll move more dma stuff in struct device (like dma_mask) to struct device_dma_parameters later. segment_boundary_mask is not supported yet. - new accessors for the dma parameters are added. So we can easily change where to place struct device_dma_parameters in the future. - dma_get_max_seg_size returns 64K if dma_parms in struct device isn't set up properly. 64K is the default max_segment_size in the block layer. Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp> Acked-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@steeleye.com> Acked-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-02PM: Export device_pm_schedule_removalRafael J. Wysocki
Move the declaration of device_pm_schedule_removal() to device.h and make it exported, as it will be used directly by some drivers for unregistering device objects during suspend/resume cycles in a safe way. Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-01-27Driver core: add bus_find_device_by_name functionGreg Kroah-Hartman
The driver core, and some other parts of the kernel just want to find a device based on a name for a specific bus. Give them a simple wrapper to prevent them from having to always roll their own. This will be used in the PPC patch later in this series. Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-01-24Driver core: fix coding style issues in device.hGreg Kroah-Hartman
Finally clean up the odd spaces and other mess in device.h Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-01-24Driver Core: add class iteration apiDave Young
Add the following class iteration functions for driver use: class_for_each_device class_find_device class_for_each_child class_find_child Signed-off-by: Dave Young <hidave.darkstar@gmail.com> Acked-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-01-24Driver core: move the static kobject out of struct driverGreg Kroah-Hartman
This patch removes the kobject, and a few other driver-core-only fields out of struct driver and into the driver core only. Now drivers can be safely create on the stack or statically (like they currently are.) Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-01-24Driver: add driver_add_kobj for looney iseries_veth driverGreg Kroah-Hartman
The iseries driver wants to hang kobjects off of its driver, so, to preserve backwards compatibility, we need to add a call to the driver core to allow future changes to work properly. Hopefully no one uses this function in the future and the iseries_veth driver authors come to their senses so I can remove this hack... Cc: Dave Larson <larson1@us.ibm.com> Cc: Santiago Leon <santil@us.ibm.com> Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-01-24driver core: Introduce default attribute groups.Cornelia Huck
This is lot like default attributes for devices (and indeed, a lot of the code is lifted from there). Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-01-24driver core: remove fields from struct bus_typeGreg Kroah-Hartman
struct bus_type is static everywhere in the kernel. This moves the kobject in the structure out of it, and a bunch of other private only to the driver core fields are now moved to a private structure. This lets us dynamically create the backing kobject properly and gives us the chance to be able to document to users exactly how to use the struct bus_type as there are no fields they can improperly access. Thanks to Kay for the build fixes on this patch. Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-01-24driver core: add way to get to bus device klistGreg Kroah-Hartman
This allows an easier way to get to the device klist associated with a struct bus_type (you have three to choose from...) This will make it easier to move these fields to be dynamic in a future patch. The only user of this is the PCI core which horribly abuses this interface to rearrange the order of the pci devices. This should be done using the existing bus device walking functions, but that's left for future patches. Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-01-24driver core: add way to get to bus ksetGreg Kroah-Hartman
This allows an easier way to get to the kset associated with a struct bus_type (you have three to choose from...) This will make it easier to move these fields to be dynamic in a future patch. Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-01-24driver core: remove owner field from struct bus_typeGreg Kroah-Hartman
This isn't used by anything in the driver core, and by no one in the 204 different usages of it in the kernel tree. Remove this field so no one gets any idea that it is needed to be used. Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-01-24firmware: remove firmware_(un)register()Greg Kroah-Hartman
These functions are no longer called or needed, so we can remove them. As I rewrote the whole firmware.c file, add my copyright. Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-01-24kset: convert struct bus_device->drivers to use kset_createGreg Kroah-Hartman
Dynamically create the kset instead of declaring it statically. Having 3 static kobjects in one structure is not only foolish, but ripe for nasty race conditions if handled improperly. We also rename the field to catch any potential users of it (not that there should be outside of the driver core...) Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-01-24kset: convert struct bus_device->devices to use kset_createGreg Kroah-Hartman
Dynamically create the kset instead of declaring it statically. Having 3 static kobjects in one structure is not only foolish, but ripe for nasty race conditions if handled improperly. We also rename the field to catch any potential users of it (not that there should be outside of the driver core...) Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-01-24driver core: Make the dev_*() family of macros in device.h completeEmil Medve
Removed duplicates defined elsewhere Signed-off-by: Emil Medve <Emilian.Medve@Freescale.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-01-24PM: Acquire device locks on suspendRafael J. Wysocki
This patch reorganizes the way suspend and resume notifications are sent to drivers. The major changes are that now the PM core acquires every device semaphore before calling the methods, and calls to device_add() during suspends will fail, while calls to device_del() during suspends will block. It also provides a way to safely remove a suspended device with the help of the PM core, by using the device_pm_schedule_removal() callback introduced specifically for this purpose, and updates two drivers (msr and cpuid) that need to use it. Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-10-31Revert "Driver core: remove class_device_*_bin_file"Greg Kroah-Hartman
This reverts commit fcd239d3d5575e5cc63aab5c33cf6dc66904f6d6. I messed up, ia64 still uses these files in the current tree, and now can not build the pci code, which all ia64 boxes seem to require :) This fixes that mistake. 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>
2007-10-12Driver 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>
2007-07-26Fix 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>
2007-07-18dev_vdbg(), available with -DVERBOSE_DEBUGDavid Brownell
This defines a dev_vdbg() call, which is enabled with -DVERBOSE_DEBUG. When enabled, dev_vdbg() acts just like dev_dbg(). When disabled, it is a NOP ... just like dev_dbg() without -DDEBUG. The specific code was moved out of a USB patch, but lots of drivers have similar support. That is, code can now be written to use an additional level of debug output, selected at compile time. Many driver authors have found this idiom to be very useful. A typical usage model is for "normal" debug messages to focus on fault paths and not be very "chatty", so that those messages can be left on during normal operation without much of a performance or syslog load. On the other hand "verbose" messages would be noisy enough that they wouldn't normally be enabled; they might even affect timings enough to change system or driver behavior. Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> 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>
2007-05-08fix hotplug for legacy platform driversDavid Brownell
We've had various reports of some legacy "probe the hardware" style platform drivers having nasty problems with hotplug support. The core issue is that those legacy drivers don't fully conform to the driver model. They assume a role that should be the responsibility of infrastructure code: creating device nodes. The "modprobe" step in hotplugging relies on drivers to have split those roles into different modules. The lack of this split causes the problems. When a driver creates nodes for devices that don't exist (sending a hotplug event), then exits (aborting one modprobe) before the "modprobe $MODALIAS" step completes (by failing, since it's in the middle of a modprobe), the result can be an endless loop of modprobe invocations ... badness. This fix uses the newish per-device flag controlling issuance of "add" events. (A previous version of this patch used a per-device "driver can hotplug" flag, which only scrubbed $MODALIAS from the environment rather than suppressing the entire hotplug event.) It also shrinks that flag to one bit, saving a word in "struct device". So the net of this patch is removing some nasty failures with legacy drivers, while retaining hotplug capability for the majority of platform drivers. Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net> Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de> Cc: Andres Salomon <dilinger@debian.org> Cc: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-04Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-2.6Linus Torvalds
* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-2.6: remove "struct subsystem" as it is no longer needed sysfs: printk format warning DOC: Fix wrong identifier name in Documentation/driver-model/devres.txt platform: reorder platform_device_del Driver core: fix show_uevent from taking up way too much stack
2007-05-02PCI: remove the broken PCI_MULTITHREAD_PROBE optionAdrian Bunk
This patch removes the PCI_MULTITHREAD_PROBE option that had already been marked as broken. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-05-02remove "struct subsystem" as it is no longer neededGreg Kroah-Hartman
We need to work on cleaning up the relationship between kobjects, ksets and ktypes. The removal of 'struct subsystem' is the first step of this, especially as it is not really needed at all. Thanks to Kay for fixing the bugs in this patch. Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>