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author | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2009-06-16 12:57:37 -0700 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2009-06-16 12:57:37 -0700 |
commit | 6fd03301d76bc439382710e449f58efbb233df1b (patch) | |
tree | 3c8a3217aed67319683ffc1debccdb5b3245b16c | |
parent | cd5232bd6be2d215a800f3d88c287ca791debfbe (diff) | |
parent | e4792aa30f9d33584d7192685ed149cc5fee737f (diff) |
Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core-2.6
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core-2.6: (64 commits)
debugfs: use specified mode to possibly mark files read/write only
debugfs: Fix terminology inconsistency of dir name to mount debugfs filesystem.
xen: remove driver_data direct access of struct device from more drivers
usb: gadget: at91_udc: remove driver_data direct access of struct device
uml: remove driver_data direct access of struct device
block/ps3: remove driver_data direct access of struct device
s390: remove driver_data direct access of struct device
parport: remove driver_data direct access of struct device
parisc: remove driver_data direct access of struct device
of_serial: remove driver_data direct access of struct device
mips: remove driver_data direct access of struct device
ipmi: remove driver_data direct access of struct device
infiniband: ehca: remove driver_data direct access of struct device
ibmvscsi: gadget: at91_udc: remove driver_data direct access of struct device
hvcs: remove driver_data direct access of struct device
xen block: remove driver_data direct access of struct device
thermal: remove driver_data direct access of struct device
scsi: remove driver_data direct access of struct device
pcmcia: remove driver_data direct access of struct device
PCIE: remove driver_data direct access of struct device
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Manually fix up trivial conflicts due to different direct driver_data
direct access fixups in drivers/block/{ps3disk.c,ps3vram.c}
121 files changed, 875 insertions, 812 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/DocBook/debugobjects.tmpl b/Documentation/DocBook/debugobjects.tmpl index 7f5f218015f..08ff908aa7a 100644 --- a/Documentation/DocBook/debugobjects.tmpl +++ b/Documentation/DocBook/debugobjects.tmpl @@ -106,7 +106,7 @@ number of errors are printk'ed including a full stack trace. </para> <para> - The statistics are available via debugfs/debug_objects/stats. + The statistics are available via /sys/kernel/debug/debug_objects/stats. They provide information about the number of warnings and the number of successful fixups along with information about the usage of the internal tracking objects and the state of the diff --git a/Documentation/cdrom/packet-writing.txt b/Documentation/cdrom/packet-writing.txt index cf1f8126991..1c407778c8b 100644 --- a/Documentation/cdrom/packet-writing.txt +++ b/Documentation/cdrom/packet-writing.txt @@ -117,7 +117,7 @@ Using the pktcdvd debugfs interface To read pktcdvd device infos in human readable form, do: - # cat /debug/pktcdvd/pktcdvd[0-7]/info + # cat /sys/kernel/debug/pktcdvd/pktcdvd[0-7]/info For a description of the debugfs interface look into the file: diff --git a/Documentation/driver-model/device.txt b/Documentation/driver-model/device.txt index a7cbfff40d0..a124f3126b0 100644 --- a/Documentation/driver-model/device.txt +++ b/Documentation/driver-model/device.txt @@ -162,3 +162,35 @@ device_remove_file(dev,&dev_attr_power); The file name will be 'power' with a mode of 0644 (-rw-r--r--). +Word of warning: While the kernel allows device_create_file() and +device_remove_file() to be called on a device at any time, userspace has +strict expectations on when attributes get created. When a new device is +registered in the kernel, a uevent is generated to notify userspace (like +udev) that a new device is available. If attributes are added after the +device is registered, then userspace won't get notified and userspace will +not know about the new attributes. + +This is important for device driver that need to publish additional +attributes for a device at driver probe time. If the device driver simply +calls device_create_file() on the device structure passed to it, then +userspace will never be notified of the new attributes. Instead, it should +probably use class_create() and class->dev_attrs to set up a list of +desired attributes in the modules_init function, and then in the .probe() +hook, and then use device_create() to create a new device as a child +of the probed device. The new device will generate a new uevent and +properly advertise the new attributes to userspace. + +For example, if a driver wanted to add the following attributes: +struct device_attribute mydriver_attribs[] = { + __ATTR(port_count, 0444, port_count_show), + __ATTR(serial_number, 0444, serial_number_show), + NULL +}; + +Then in the module init function is would do: + mydriver_class = class_create(THIS_MODULE, "my_attrs"); + mydriver_class.dev_attr = mydriver_attribs; + +And assuming 'dev' is the struct device passed into the probe hook, the driver +probe function would do something like: + create_device(&mydriver_class, dev, chrdev, &private_data, "my_name"); diff --git a/Documentation/fault-injection/fault-injection.txt b/Documentation/fault-injection/fault-injection.txt index 4bc374a1434..07930564079 100644 --- a/Documentation/fault-injection/fault-injection.txt +++ b/Documentation/fault-injection/fault-injection.txt @@ -29,16 +29,16 @@ o debugfs entries fault-inject-debugfs kernel module provides some debugfs entries for runtime configuration of fault-injection capabilities. -- /debug/fail*/probability: +- /sys/kernel/debug/fail*/probability: likelihood of failure injection, in percent. Format: <percent> Note that one-failure-per-hundred is a very high error rate for some testcases. Consider setting probability=100 and configure - /debug/fail*/interval for such testcases. + /sys/kernel |