linux/drivers/base/bus.c, branch v2.6.23.3

sysfs: kill unnecessary attribute->owner

2007-07-11T23:09:06Z

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 Cc: Cornelia Huck Cc: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

Driver core: coding style cleanup

2007-07-11T23:09:02Z

This converts code of the form if ((error = some_func())) goto fixup; to error = some_func(); if (error) goto fixup; Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

Driver core: add missing kset uevent

2007-07-11T23:09:01Z

We get uevents for a bus/class going away, but not one registering. Add the missing uevent in kset_register(), which will send an event for a new bus/class. Suppress all unwanted uevents for bus subdirectories like /bus/*/devices/, /bus/*/drivers/. Now we get for module usbcore: add /module/usbcore (module) add /bus/usb (bus) add /class/usb_host (class) add /bus/usb/drivers/hub (drivers) add /bus/usb/drivers/usb (drivers) remove /bus/usb/drivers/usb (drivers) remove /bus/usb/drivers/hub (drivers) remove /class/usb_host (class) remove /bus/usb (bus) remove /module/usbcore (module) instead of: add /module/usbcore (module) add /bus/usb/drivers/hub (drivers) add /bus/usb/drivers/usb (drivers) remove /bus/usb/drivers/usb (drivers) remove /bus/usb/drivers/hub (drivers) remove /class/usb_host (class) remove /bus/usb/drivers (bus) remove /bus/usb/devices (bus) remove /bus/usb (bus) remove /module/usbcore (module) Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

remove "struct subsystem" as it is no longer needed

2007-05-03T01:57:59Z

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

driver core: bus_add_driver should return an error if no bus

2007-04-27T17:57:32Z

As pointed out by Dave Jones. Cc: Dave Jones Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

Driver core: remove unneeded completion from driver release path

2007-04-27T17:57:29Z

The completion in the driver release path is due to ancient history in the _very_ early 2.5 days when we were not tracking the module reference count of attributes. It is not needed at all and can be removed. Note, we now have an empty release function for the driver structure. This is due to the fact that drivers are statically allocated in the system at this point in time, something which I want to change in the future. But remember, drivers are really code, which is reference counted by the module, unlike devices, which are data and _must_ be reference counted properly in order to work correctly. Cc: Kay Sievers Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

driver core: don't fail attaching the device if it cannot be bound

2007-04-27T17:57:29Z

Don't fail bus_attach_device() if the device cannot be bound. If dev->driver has been specified, reset it to NULL if device_bind_driver() failed and add the device as an unbound device. As a result, bus_attach_device() now cannot fail, and we can remove some checking from device_add(). Also remove an unneeded check in bus_rescan_devices_helper(). Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

Driver core: udev triggered device-<>driver binding

2007-04-27T17:57:28Z

We get two per-bus sysfs files: ls-l /sys/subsystem/usb drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 2007-02-16 16:42 devices drwxr-xr-x 7 root root 0 2007-02-16 14:55 drivers -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4096 2007-02-16 16:42 drivers_autoprobe --w------- 1 root root 4096 2007-02-16 16:42 drivers_probe The flag "drivers_autoprobe" controls the behavior of the bus to bind devices by default, or just initialize the device and leave it alone. The command "drivers_probe" accepts a bus_id and the bus tries to bind a driver to this device. Systems who want to control the driver binding with udev, switch off the bus initiated probing: echo 0 > /sys/subsystem/usb/drivers_autoprobe echo 0 > /sys/subsystem/pcmcia/drivers_autoprobe ... and initiate the probing with udev rules like: ACTION=="add", SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ATTR{subsystem/drivers_probe}="$kernel" ACTION=="add", SUBSYSTEM=="pcmcia", ATTR{subsystem/drivers_probe}="$kernel" ... Custom driver binding can happen in earlier rules by something like: ACTION=="add", SUBSYSTEM=="usb", \ ATTRS{idVendor}=="1234", ATTRS{idProduct}=="5678" \ ATTR{subsystem/drivers//bind}="$kernel" This is intended to solve the modprobe.conf mess with "install-rules", custom bind/unbind-scripts and all the weird things people invented over the years. It should also provide the functionality "libusual" was supposed to do. With udev, one can just write a udev rule to drive all USB-disks at the third port of USB-hub by the "ub" driver, and everything else by usb-storage. One can also instruct udev to bind different wireless drivers to identical cards - just selected by the pcmcia slot-number, and whatever ... To use the mentioned rules, it needs udev version 106, to be able to write ATTR{}="$kernel" to sysfs files. Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

Driver core: device_add_attrs() cleanup

2007-02-16T23:19:18Z

Clean up the coding in device_add_attrs() a bit. Cc: Jean Delvare Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED - bus symlinks

2006-12-01T22:51:58Z

Turn off the bus symlinks if CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED is enabled Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman