linux/drivers/base/class.c, branch v3.0.62

driver-core: merge private parts of class and bus

2010-11-17T22:21:08Z

As classes and busses are pretty much the same thing, and we want to merge them together into a 'subsystem' in the future, let us share the same private data parts to make that merge easier. Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

driver core: fix whitespace in class_attr_string

2010-11-11T01:00:12Z

869dfc875e3 addded a long line and indented with spaces. Fix. Signed-off-by: Brandon Philips Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

SYSFS: Allow boot time switching between deprecated and modern sysfs layout

2010-10-22T17:16:43Z

I have some systems which need legacy sysfs due to old tools that are making assumptions that a directory can never be a symlink to another directory, and it's a big hazzle to compile separate kernels for them. This patch turns CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED into a run time option that can be switched on/off the kernel command line. This way the same binary can be used in both cases with just a option on the command line. The old CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 option is still there to set the default. I kept the weird name to not break existing config files. Also the compat code can be still completely disabled by undefining CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED_SWITCH -- just the optimizer takes care of this now instead of lots of ifdefs. This makes the code look nicer. v2: This is an updated version on top of Kay's patch to only handle the block devices. I tested it on my old systems and that seems to work. Cc: axboe@kernel.dk Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen Cc: Kay Sievers Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

driver core: remove CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 but keep it for block devices

2010-10-22T17:16:43Z

This patch removes the old CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 config option, but it keeps the logic around to handle block devices in the old manner as some people like to run new kernel versions on old (pre 2007/2008) distros. Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers Cc: Jens Axboe Cc: Stephen Hemminger Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" Cc: Alan Stern Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" Cc: Andrew Morton Cc: Alexey Kuznetsov Cc: Randy Dunlap Cc: Tejun Heo Cc: "David S. Miller" Cc: Jaroslav Kysela Cc: Takashi Iwai Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: David Howells Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

kobj: Add basic infrastructure for dealing with namespaces.

2010-05-21T16:37:31Z

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 Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

driver-core: document ERR_PTR() return values

2010-03-19T14:12:21Z

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 Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

Driver core: Constify struct sysfs_ops in struct kobj_type

2010-03-08T01:04:49Z

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 Acked-by: David Teigland Acked-by: Matt Domsch Acked-by: Maciej Sosnowski Acked-by: Hans J. Koch Acked-by: Pekka Enberg Acked-by: Jens Axboe Acked-by: Stephen Hemminger Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

driver core: Add class_attr_string for simple read-only string

2010-03-08T01:04:48Z

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 Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

driver-core: Add attribute argument to class_attribute show/store

2010-03-08T01:04:48Z

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 Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

class: Free the class private data in class_release

2010-02-16T23:43:00Z

Fix a memory leak by freeing the memory allocated in __class_register for the class private data. Signed-off-by: Laurent Pinchart Acked-by: Artem Bityutskiy Cc: stable Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman