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Eric W. Biederman
bc451f2058 kobj: Add basic infrastructure for dealing with namespaces.
Move complete knowledge of namespaces into the kobject layer
so we can use that information when reporting kobjects to
userspace.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-05-21 09:37:31 -07:00
Jani Nikula
f0eae0ed3b driver-core: document ERR_PTR() return values
A number of functions in the driver core return ERR_PTR() values on
error. Document this in the kernel-doc of the functions.

Signed-off-by: Jani Nikula <ext-jani.1.nikula@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-03-19 07:12:21 -07:00
Emese Revfy
52cf25d0ab Driver core: Constify struct sysfs_ops in struct kobj_type
Constify struct sysfs_ops.

This is part of the ops structure constification
effort started by Arjan van de Ven et al.

Benefits of this constification:

 * prevents modification of data that is shared
   (referenced) by many other structure instances
   at runtime

 * detects/prevents accidental (but not intentional)
   modification attempts on archs that enforce
   read-only kernel data at runtime

 * potentially better optimized code as the compiler
   can assume that the const data cannot be changed

 * the compiler/linker move const data into .rodata
   and therefore exclude them from false sharing

Signed-off-by: Emese Revfy <re.emese@gmail.com>
Acked-by: David Teigland <teigland@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>
Acked-by: Maciej Sosnowski <maciej.sosnowski@intel.com>
Acked-by: Hans J. Koch <hjk@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Acked-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-03-07 17:04:49 -08:00
Andi Kleen
869dfc875e driver core: Add class_attr_string for simple read-only string
Several drivers just export a static string as class attributes.

Use the new extensible attribute support to define a simple
CLASS_ATTR_STRING() macro for this.

This will allow to remove code from drivers in followon patches.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-03-07 17:04:48 -08:00
Andi Kleen
28812fe11a driver-core: Add attribute argument to class_attribute show/store
Passing the attribute to the low level IO functions allows all kinds
of cleanups, by sharing low level IO code without requiring
an own function for every piece of data.

Also drivers can extend the attributes with own data fields
and use that in the low level function.

This makes the class attributes the same as sysdev_class attributes
and plain attributes.

This will allow further cleanups in drivers.

Full tree sweep converting all users.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-03-07 17:04:48 -08:00
Laurent Pinchart
18d19c9645 class: Free the class private data in class_release
Fix a memory leak by freeing the memory allocated in __class_register
for the class private data.

Signed-off-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>
Acked-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
Cc: stable <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-02-16 15:43:00 -08:00
Jean Delvare
4622709445 Driver core: Add support for compatibility classes
When turning class devices into bus devices, we may need to
temporarily add links in sysfs so that user-space applications
are not confused. This is done by adding the following API:

* Functions to register and unregister compatibility classes.
  These appear in sysfs at the same location as regular classes, but
  instead of class devices, they contain links to bus devices.
* Functions to create and delete such links. Additionally, the caller
  can optionally pass a target device to which a "device" link should
  point (typically that would be the device's parent), to fully emulate
  the original class device.

The i2c subsystem will be the first user of this API, as i2c adapters
are being converted from class devices to bus devices.

Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
2009-09-15 09:50:48 -07:00
Tejun Heo
5a3ceb8616 driver-core: use klist for class device list and implement iterator
Iterating over entries using callback usually isn't too fun especially
when the entry being iterated over can't be manipulated freely.  This
patch converts class->p->class_devices to klist and implements class
device iterator so that the users can freely build their own control
structure.  The users are also free to call back into class code
without worrying about locking.

class_for_each_device() and class_find_device() are converted to use
the new iterators, so their users don't have to worry about locking
anymore either.

Note: This depends on klist-dont-iterate-over-deleted-entries patch
because class_intf->add/remove_dev() depends on proper synchronization
with device removal.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-10-09 08:56:04 +02:00
David Brownell
7c2250352e driver model: anti-oopsing medicine
Anti-oops medicine for the class iterators ... the oops was
observed when a class was implicitly referenced before it
was initialized.

[Modified by Greg to spit a warning back so someone knows to fix their code]

Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-08-21 10:15:36 -07:00
Randy Dunlap
0e241ffd30 locking: fix mutex @key parameter kernel-doc notation
Fix @key parameter to mutex_init() and one of its callers.

Warning(linux-2.6.26-git11//drivers/base/class.c:210): No description found for parameter 'key'

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-07-28 18:12:36 +02:00
Dave Young
f75b1c60fc class: change internal semaphore to a mutex
Now that the lockdep infrastructure in the class core is in place, we
should be able to properly change the internal class semaphore to be a
mutex.

David wrote the original patch, and Greg fixed it up to apply properly
due to all of the recent changes in this area.

From: Dave Young <hidave.darkstar@gmail.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-07-21 21:54:52 -07:00
Matthew Wilcox
d2a3b9146e class: add lockdep infrastructure
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>
2008-07-21 21:54:52 -07:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman
d9a0157328 class: rename "sem" to "class_sem" in internal class structure
This renames the struct class "sem" field to be "class_sem" to make
things easier when struct bus_type and struct class merge in the future.
It also makes grepping for fields easier as well.

Based on an idea from Kay.

Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-07-21 21:54:52 -07:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman
1fbfee6c6d class: rename "subsys" to "class_subsys" in internal class structure
This renames the struct class "subsys" field to be "class_subsys" to
make things easier when struct bus_type and struct class merge in the
future.  It also makes grepping for fields easier as well.

Based on an idea from Kay.

Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-07-21 21:54:52 -07:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman
184f1f779d class: rename "interfaces" to "class_interfaces" in internal class structure
This renames the struct class "interfaces" field to be
"class_interfaces" to make things easier when struct bus_type and struct
class merge in the future.  It also makes grepping for fields easier as
well.

Based on an idea from Kay.

Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-07-21 21:54:51 -07:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman
97ae69fdba class: rename "devices" to "class_devices" in internal class structure
This renames the struct class "devices" field to be "class_devices" to
make things easier when struct bus_type and struct class merge in the
future.  It also makes grepping for fields easier as well.

Based on an idea from Kay.

Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-07-21 21:54:51 -07:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman
7c71448b8a class: move driver core specific parts to a private structure
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>
2008-07-21 21:54:51 -07:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman
695794ae0c Driver Core: add ability for class_find_device to start in middle of list
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>
2008-07-21 21:54:47 -07:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman
93562b5376 Driver Core: add ability for class_for_each_device to start in middle of list
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>
2008-07-21 21:54:47 -07:00
Dan Williams
e105b8bfc7 sysfs: add /sys/dev/{char,block} to lookup sysfs path by major:minor
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>
2008-07-21 21:54:40 -07:00
Dave Young
0a3ad00ca0 Driver core: struct class remove children list
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>
2008-05-14 10:37:58 -07:00
Kay Sievers
c3b19ff06e driver core: remove no longer used "struct class_device"
Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-04-30 16:52:49 -07:00
Harvey Harrison
2b3a302a09 driver core: replace remaining __FUNCTION__ occurrences
__FUNCTION__ is gcc-specific, use __func__

Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-04-19 19:10:29 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
3b470ac43f Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-2.6
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-2.6:
  PPC: Fix powerpc vio_find_name to not use devices_subsys
  Driver core: add bus_find_device_by_name function
  Module: check to see if we have a built in module with the same name
  x86: fix runtime error in arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce_amd_64.c
  Driver core: Fix up build when CONFIG_BLOCK=N
2008-01-31 09:31:37 +11:00
Randy Dunlap
a63ca8f65d docbook: fix drivers/base/class warning
Fix kernel-doc empty line warning:
Warning(linux-2.6.24-git8//drivers/base/class.c:866): bad line:

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-01-31 09:28:20 +11:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman
4e886c2961 Driver core: Fix up build when CONFIG_BLOCK=N
This fixes up the driver core build errors when CONFIG_BLOCK=N

Thanks to Alexander van Heukelum <heukelum@mailshack.com> for the basis
of this patch, and to Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org> for
reporting the problem.


Cc: Alexander van Heukelum <heukelum@mailshack.com>
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-01-27 15:01:38 -08:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman
4a3ad20ccd Driver core: coding style fixes
Fix up a number of coding style issues in the drivers/base/ directory
that have annoyed me over the years.  checkpatch.pl is now very happy.

Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-01-24 22:50:12 -08:00
Dave Young
fd04897bb2 Driver Core: add class iteration api
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>
2008-01-24 20:40:44 -08:00
Kay Sievers
af5ca3f4ec Driver core: change sysdev classes to use dynamic kobject names
All kobjects require a dynamically allocated name now. We no longer
need to keep track if the name is statically assigned, we can just
unconditionally free() all kobject names on cleanup.

Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-01-24 20:40:40 -08:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman
f9cb074bff Kobject: rename kobject_init_ng() to kobject_init()
Now that the old kobject_init() function is gone, rename
kobject_init_ng() to kobject_init() to clean up the namespace.

Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-01-24 20:40:38 -08:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman
b2d6db5878 Kobject: rename kobject_add_ng() to kobject_add()
Now that the old kobject_add() function is gone, rename kobject_add_ng()
to kobject_add() to clean up the namespace.

Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-01-24 20:40:38 -08:00
Kay Sievers
edfaa7c365 Driver core: convert block from raw kobjects to core devices
This moves the block devices to /sys/class/block. It will create a
flat list of all block devices, with the disks and partitions in one
directory. For compatibility /sys/block is created and contains symlinks
to the disks.

  /sys/class/block
  |-- sda -> ../../devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1f.2/host0/target0:0:0/0:0:0:0/block/sda
  |-- sda1 -> ../../devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1f.2/host0/target0:0:0/0:0:0:0/block/sda/sda1
  |-- sda10 -> ../../devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1f.2/host0/target0:0:0/0:0:0:0/block/sda/sda10
  |-- sda5 -> ../../devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1f.2/host0/target0:0:0/0:0:0:0/block/sda/sda5
  |-- sda6 -> ../../devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1f.2/host0/target0:0:0/0:0:0:0/block/sda/sda6
  |-- sda7 -> ../../devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1f.2/host0/target0:0:0/0:0:0:0/block/sda/sda7
  |-- sda8 -> ../../devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1f.2/host0/target0:0:0/0:0:0:0/block/sda/sda8
  |-- sda9 -> ../../devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1f.2/host0/target0:0:0/0:0:0:0/block/sda/sda9
  `-- sr0 -> ../../devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1f.2/host1/target1:0:0/1:0:0:0/block/sr0

  /sys/block/
  |-- sda -> ../devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1f.2/host0/target0:0:0/0:0:0:0/block/sda
  `-- sr0 -> ../devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1f.2/host1/target1:0:0/1:0:0:0/block/sr0

Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-01-24 20:40:36 -08:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman
60728d62e4 Kobject: convert drivers/base/class.c to use kobject_init/add_ng()
This converts the code to use the new kobject functions, cleaning up the
logic in doing so.

Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-01-24 20:40:30 -08:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman
2fb9113b97 kobject: remove subsystem_(un)register functions
These functions are no longer used and are the last remants of the old
subsystem crap.  So delete them for good.

Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-01-24 20:40:24 -08:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman
5c03c7ab88 kset: remove decl_subsys macro
This macro is no longer used.  ksets should be created dynamically with
a call to kset_create_and_add() not declared statically.

Yes, there are 5 remaining static struct kset usages in the kernel tree,
but they will be fixed up soon.

Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-01-24 20:40:24 -08:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman
443dbf9007 kset: convert drivers/base/class.c to use kset_create
Dynamically create the kset instead of declaring it statically.

The class_obj subsystem is not yet converted as it is more complex and
should be going away soon with the removal of class_device from the
kernel tree.

Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-01-24 20:40:15 -08:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman
3514faca19 kobject: remove struct kobj_type from struct kset
We don't need a "default" ktype for a kset.  We should set this
explicitly every time for each kset.  This change is needed so that we
can make ksets dynamic, and cleans up one of the odd, undocumented
assumption that the kset/kobject/ktype model has.

This patch is based on a lot of help from Kay Sievers.

Nasty bug in the block code was found by Dave Young
<hidave.darkstar@gmail.com>

Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Cc: Dave Young <hidave.darkstar@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-01-24 20:40:10 -08:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman
d919fd433b Revert "Driver core: remove class_device_*_bin_file"
This reverts commit fcd239d3d5.

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>
2007-10-31 12:51:29 -07:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman
fcd239d3d5 Driver core: remove class_device_*_bin_file
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>
2007-10-30 21:52:33 -07:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman
adc56808f3 Driver core: rename ktype_class
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>
2007-10-12 14:51:11 -07:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman
e4bc16621d driver core: remove subsystem_init()
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>
2007-10-12 14:51:11 -07:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman
1ef4cfac01 Driver core: remove subsys_get()
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>
2007-10-12 14:51:01 -07:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman
6e9d930d16 Driver core: remove subsys_put()
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>
2007-10-12 14:51:01 -07:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman
d6b05b84ed Driver core: remove subsys_set_kset
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>
2007-10-12 14:51:01 -07:00
Kay Sievers
7eff2e7a8b Driver core: change add_uevent_var to use a struct
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>
2007-10-12 14:51:01 -07:00
Tejun Heo
ad6a1e1c66 driver-core: make devt_attr and uevent_attr static
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>
2007-07-11 16:09:06 -07:00
Tejun Heo
7b595756ec sysfs: kill unnecessary attribute->owner
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>
2007-07-11 16:09:06 -07:00
Kay Sievers
2c7afd125c Driver core: keep PHYSDEV for old struct class_device
Class-devices created by "struct class_device" are going to be replaced
by "struct device". Keep the deprecated PHYSDEV* variables for the already
"deprecated" struct class_device" devices.

Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-06-08 12:41:07 -07:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman
823bccfc40 remove "struct subsystem" as it is no longer needed
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>
2007-05-02 18:57:59 -07:00
Kay Sievers
864062457a driver core: fix namespace issue with devices assigned to classes
- uses a kset in "struct class" to keep track of all directories
    belonging to this class
  - merges with the /sys/devices/virtual logic.
  - removes the namespace-dir if the last member of that class
    leaves the directory.

There may be locking or refcounting fixes left, I stopped when it seemed
to work with network and sound modules. :)

From: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-04-27 10:57:28 -07:00