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Kay Sievers
16574dccd8 Driver core: make uevent-environment available in uevent-file
This allows sysfs to show the environment variables that are available
if the uevent happens.  This lets userspace not have to cache all of
this information as the kernel already knows it.

Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-04-27 10:57:31 -07:00
Cornelia Huck
83b5fb4cce Driver core: suppress uevents via filter
Suppress uevents for devices if uevent_suppress is set via
dev_uevent_filter(). This makes the driver core suppress all device
uevents, not just the add event in device_add().

Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-04-27 10:57:29 -07:00
Cornelia Huck
c6a46696f9 driver core: don't fail attaching the device if it cannot be bound
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 <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-04-27 10:57:29 -07:00
Kay Sievers
414264f959 Driver core: add name to device_type
If "name" of a device_type is specified, the uevent will
contain the device_type name in the DEVTYPE variable.
This helps userspace to distingiush between different types
of devices, belonging to the same subsystem.

Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-04-27 10:57:28 -07:00
Dmitry Torokhov
621a1672f7 driver core: Use attribute groups in struct device_type
Driver core: use attribute groups in struct device_type

Attribute groups are more flexible than attribute lists
(an attribute list can be represented by anonymous group)
so switch struct device_type to use them.

Also rework attribute creation for devices so that they all
cleaned up properly in case of errors.

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-04-27 10:57:28 -07:00
Jean Delvare
a456b7023e dev_printk and new-style class devices
As the new-style class devices (as opposed to old-style struct
class_device) are becoming more widely used, I noticed that the
dev_printk-based functions are not working properly with these.
New-style class devices have no driver nor bus, almost by definition,
and as a result dev_driver_string(), which is used as the first
parameter of dev_printk, resolves to an empty string. This causes
entries like the following to show in my logs:

 i2c-2: adapter [SMBus stub driver] registered

Notice the unaesthetical leading whitespace. In order to fix this
problem, I suggest that we extend dev_driver_string to deal with
new-style class devices:

Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-04-27 10:57:28 -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
Dmitriy Monakhov
00ed8e3dda driver core: fix device_add error path
- At the moment we jump here device was't added to
   dev->class->devices list yet.

Signed-off-by: Monakhov Dmitriy <dmonakhov@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-04-27 10:57:27 -07:00
Andrew Morton
2363cc0264 [PATCH] remove protection of LANANA-reserved majors
Revert all this.  It can cause device-mapper to receive a different major from
earlier kernels and it turns out that the Amanda backup program (via GNU tar,
apparently) checks major numbers on files when performing incremental backups.

Which is a bit broken of Amanda (or tar), but this feature isn't important
enough to justify the churn.

Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-04-04 21:12:47 -07:00
Alan Stern
d9a9cdfb07 [PATCH] sysfs and driver core: add callback helper, used by SCSI and S390
This patch (as868) adds a helper routine for device drivers that need
to set up a callback to perform some action in a different process's
context.  This is intended for use by attribute methods that want to
unregister themselves or their parent device.  Attribute method calls
are mutually exclusive with unregistration, so such actions cannot be
taken directly.

Two attribute methods are converted to use the new helper routine: one
for SCSI device deletion and one for System/390 ccwgroup devices.

Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Cc: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Oliver Neukum <oneukum@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-03-15 15:29:26 -07:00
Johannes Berg
a2807dbcbd driver core: export device_rename
In wireless we'd like to allow renaming of the phy devices we surface in
sysfs. The base wireless code, however, can be built modular and thus we
need device_rename exported.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-03-09 15:32:58 -08:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman
f7f3461d87 Driver core: add device symlink back to sysfs
This moves the device symlink back to sysfs even if
CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED is enabled as too many userspace programs (well,
HAL), still rely on this link to be present.

I will rework the ability for sysfs to change layouts like this in the
future, but for now, this patch should fix people's network connections.


Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-03-09 15:32:58 -08:00
Tejun Heo
2f8d16a996 devres: release resources on device_del()
Some platform devices are driven without driver attached, so managed
resources can be acquired without driver attached.  Make sure such
resources are released by calling devres_release_all() in
device_del().

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2007-03-09 08:41:16 -05:00
James Simmons
82f0cf9b7c Driver core: fix error by cleanup up symlinks properly
When a device fails to register the class symlinks where not cleaned up.
This left a symlink in the /sys/class/"device"/ directory that pointed
to no where. This caused the sysfs_follow_link Oops I reported earlier.
This patch cleanups up the symlink. Please apply. Thank you.

Signed-Off: James Simmons <jsimmons@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-02-23 14:52:09 -08:00
Andrew Morton
b446b60e4e [PATCH] rework reserved major handling
Several people have reported failures in dynamic major device number handling
due to the recent changes in there to avoid handing out the local/experimental
majors.

Rolf reports that this is due to a gcc-4.1.0 bug.

The patch refactors that code a lot in an attempt to provoke the compiler into
behaving.

Cc: Rolf Eike Beer <eike-kernel@sf-tec.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-02-20 17:10:13 -08:00
Tejun Heo
9ac7849e35 devres: device resource management
Implement device resource management, in short, devres.  A device
driver can allocate arbirary size of devres data which is associated
with a release function.  On driver detach, release function is
invoked on the devres data, then, devres data is freed.

devreses are typed by associated release functions.  Some devreses are
better represented by single instance of the type while others need
multiple instances sharing the same release function.  Both usages are
supported.

devreses can be grouped using devres group such that a device driver
can easily release acquired resources halfway through initialization
or selectively release resources (e.g. resources for port 1 out of 4
ports).

This patch adds devres core including documentation and the following
managed interfaces.

* alloc/free	: devm_kzalloc(), devm_kzfree()
* IO region	: devm_request_region(), devm_release_region()
* IRQ		: devm_request_irq(), devm_free_irq()
* DMA		: dmam_alloc_coherent(), dmam_free_coherent(),
		  dmam_declare_coherent_memory(), dmam_pool_create(),
		  dmam_pool_destroy()
* PCI		: pcim_enable_device(), pcim_pin_device(), pci_is_managed()
* iomap		: devm_ioport_map(), devm_ioport_unmap(), devm_ioremap(),
		  devm_ioremap_nocache(), devm_iounmap(), pcim_iomap_table(),
		  pcim_iomap(), pcim_iounmap()

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2007-02-09 17:39:36 -05:00
Kay Sievers
b7a3e813fb Driver core: allow to delay the uevent at device creation time
For the block subsystem, we want to delay all uevents until the
disk has been scanned and allpartitons are already created before
the first event is sent out.

Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-02-07 10:37:14 -08:00
Kay Sievers
f9f852df2f Driver core: add device_type to struct device
This allows us to add type specific attributes, uevent vars and
release funtions.

A subsystem can carry different types of devices like the "block"
subsys has disks and partitions. Both types create a different set
of attributes, but belong to the same subsystem.

This corresponds to the low level objects:
  kobject   -> device       (object/device data)
  kobj_type -> device_type  (type of object/device we are embedded in)
  kset      -> class/bus    (list of objects/devices of a subsystem)

Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-02-07 10:37:14 -08:00
Kay Sievers
239378f16a Driver core: add uevent vars for devices of a class
Devices converted from class_device to device should have
the same uevent keys as the original class_device had. We
search up the parents until we find the first bus device and
add the (already deprecated) PHYDEV* values.

Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-02-07 10:37:13 -08:00
Cornelia Huck
cb360bbf63 driver core fixes: make_class_name() retval checks
Make make_class_name() return NULL on error and fixup callers in the
driver core.

Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-02-07 10:37:12 -08:00
Cornelia Huck
c744aeae9d driver core: Allow device_move(dev, NULL).
If we allow NULL as the new parent in device_move(), we need to make sure
that the device is placed into the same place as it would if it was
newly registered:

- Consider the device virtual tree. In order to be able to reuse code,
  setup_parent() has been tweaked a bit.
- kobject_move() can fall back to the kset's kobject.
- sysfs_move_dir() uses the sysfs root dir as fallback.

Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-02-07 10:37:11 -08:00
Cornelia Huck
717e48c29d driver core: Remove device_is_registered() in device_move().
device_is_registered() will always be false for a device with no bus. Remove
this check and trust the caller to know what they're doing.

Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-02-07 10:37:11 -08:00
Christoph Hellwig
873481367e [PATCH] add numa node information to struct device
For node-aware skb allocations we need information about the node in struct
net_device or struct device.  Davem suggested to put it into struct device
which this patch does.

In particular:

 - struct device gets a new int numa_node member if CONFIG_NUMA is set
 - there are two new helpers, dev_to_node and set_dev_node to
   transparently deal with the non-numa case
 - for pci devices the node-info is set to the value we get from
   pcibus_to_node.

Note that for some architectures pcibus_to_node doesn't work yet at the time
we call it currently.  This is harmless and will just mean skb allocations
aren't node-local on this architectures until the implementation of
pcibus_to_node on these architectures have been updated (There are patches for
x86 and x86_64 floating around)

[akpm@osdl.org: cleanup]
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@engr.sgi.com>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-07 08:39:22 -08:00
Cornelia Huck
acf02d23b9 driver core: Use klist_remove() in device_move()
As pointed out by Alan Stern, device_move needs to use klist_remove which waits
until removal is complete.

Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-12-01 14:52:02 -08:00
Cornelia Huck
8a82472f86 driver core: Introduce device_move(): move a device to a new parent.
Provide a function device_move() to move a device to a new parent device. Add
auxilliary functions kobject_move() and sysfs_move_dir().
kobject_move() generates a new uevent of type KOBJ_MOVE, containing the
previous path (DEVPATH_OLD) in addition to the usual values. For this, a new
interface kobject_uevent_env() is created that allows to add further
environmental data to the uevent at the kobject layer.

Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-12-01 14:52:01 -08:00
Adrian Bunk
af9e076536 Driver core: make drivers/base/core.c:setup_parent() static
This patch makes the needlessly global setup_parent() static.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-12-01 14:52:01 -08:00
Cornelia Huck
5ab699810d driver core: Introduce device_find_child().
Introduce device_find_child() to match device_for_each_child().

Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-12-01 14:52:01 -08:00
Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2895353346 Driver core: Call platform_notify_remove later
Move the call to platform_notify_remove() to after the call to
bus_remove_device(), where it belongs.  It's bogus to notify the platform
of removal while drivers are still attached to the device and possibly
still operating since the platform might use this callback to tear down
some resources used by the driver (ACPI bits, iommu table, ...)

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: "Brown, Len" <len.brown@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-12-01 14:52:01 -08:00
Kay Sievers
a87cb2ac4a CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED - PHYSDEV* uevent variables
Disable the PHYSDEV* uevent variables if CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED is
enabled.

Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-12-01 14:51:59 -08:00
Kay Sievers
99ef3ef8d5 CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED - device symlinks
Turn off device symlinks CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED is enabled.

Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-12-01 14:51:59 -08:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman
40fa54226f Driver core: make old versions of udev work properly
If CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED is enabled, old versions of udev will work
properly with devices that are associated with a class.

Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-12-01 14:51:58 -08:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman
f0ee61a6ce Driver Core: Move virtual_device_parent() to core.c
It doesn't need to be global or in device.h


Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-12-01 14:51:58 -08:00
Benjamin Herrenschmidt
116af37820 Driver core: add notification of bus events
I finally did as you suggested and added the notifier to the struct
bus_type itself. There are still problems to be expected is something
attaches to a bus type where the code can hook in different struct
device sub-classes (which is imho a big bogosity but I won't even try to
argue that case now) but it will solve nicely a number of issues I've
had so far.

That also means that clients interested in registering for such
notifications have to do it before devices are added and after bus types
are registered. Fortunately, most bus types that matter for the various
usage scenarios I have in mind are registerd at postcore_initcall time,
which means I have a really nice spot at arch_initcall time to add my
notifiers.

There are 4 notifications provided. Device being added (before hooked to
the bus) and removed (failure of previous case or after being unhooked
from the bus), along with driver being bound to a device and about to be
unbound.

The usage I have for these are:

 - The 2 first ones are used to maintain a struct device_ext that is
hooked to struct device.firmware_data. This structure contains for now a
pointer to the Open Firmware node related to the device (if any), the
NUMA node ID (for quick access to it) and the DMA operations pointers &
iommu table instance for DMA to/from this device. For bus types I own
(like IBM VIO or EBUS), I just maintain that structure directly from the
bus code when creating the devices. But for bus types managed by generic
code like PCI or platform (actually, of_platform which is a variation of
platform linked to Open Firmware device-tree), I need this notifier.

 - The other two ones have a completely different usage scenario. I have
cases where multiple devices and their drivers depend on each other. For
example, the IBM EMAC network driver needs to attach to a MAL DMA engine
which is a separate device, and a PHY interface which is also a separate
device. They are all of_platform_device's (well, about to be with my
upcoming patches) but there is no say in what precise order the core
will "probe" them and instanciate the various modules. The solution I
found for that is to have the drivers for emac to use multithread_probe,
and wait for a driver to be bound to the target MAL and PHY control
devices (the device-tree contains reference to the MAL and PHY interface
nodes, which I can then match to of_platform_devices). Right now, I've
been polling, but with that notifier, I can more cleanly wait (with a
timeout of course).

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-12-01 14:51:58 -08:00
Catalin Marinas
82189b9807 [PATCH] Fix device_attribute memory leak in device_del
dev->devt_attr is allocated in device_add() but it is never freed in
device_del() in the drivers/base/core.c file (reported by kmemleak).

Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-11-25 13:28:33 -08:00
Alan Stern
f70fa6296c Driver core: Don't ignore error returns from probing
This patch (as797) fixes device_add() in the driver core.  It needs to
pay attention when the driver for a new device reports an error.

At the same time, since bus_remove_device() undoes the effects of both
bus_add_device() and bus_attach_device(), it needs to check whether
the bus_attach_device step failed.

Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-10-18 12:49:55 -07:00
Jesper Juhl
952ab431cd Driver core: Don't leak 'old_class_name' in drivers/base/core.c::device_rename()
If kmalloc() fails to allocate space for 'old_symlink_name' in
drivers/base/core.c::device_rename(), then we'll leak 'old_class_name'.

Spotted by the Coverity checker.


Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-10-18 12:49:55 -07:00
Cornelia Huck
a306eea409 driver core fixes: device_add() cleanup on error
Check for return code of device_create_file() and correct cleanup in
the error case in device_add().

Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-10-18 12:49:55 -07:00
Matthew Wilcox
310a922d43 Fix dev_printk() is now GPL-only
Make dev_printk usable from non-GPL modules again

dev_printk now calls dev_driver_string.  We want even proprietary modules
to be calling dev_printk, so the export of dev_driver_string needs to be
non-GPL-only.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-10-18 12:49:54 -07:00
Brian Walsh
370226449c drivers/base: Platform notify needs to occur before drivers attach to the device
The platform_notify call for Arm and PPC architectures needs to be called
before the driver attaches to the device.  The problem only presents itself
when hotplugging certain devices while the driver is already loaded.

Signed-off-by: Brian Walsh <brian@walsh.ws>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-09-25 21:08:39 -07:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman
2589f1887b Driver core: add ability for devices to create and remove bin files
Makes it easier for devices to create and remove binary attribute files
so they don't have to call directly into sysfs.  This is needed to help
with the conversion from struct class_device to struct device.

Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-09-25 21:08:39 -07:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman
c47ed219ba Class: add support for class interfaces for devices
When moving class_device usage over to device, we need to handle
class_interfaces properly with devices.  This patch adds that support.


Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-09-25 21:08:38 -07:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman
c205ef4880 Driver core: create devices/virtual/ tree
This change creates a devices/virtual/CLASS_NAME tree for struct devices
that belong to a class, yet do not have a "real" struct device for a
parent.  It automatically creates the directories on the fly as needed.


Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-09-25 21:08:38 -07:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman
a2de48cace Driver core: add device_rename function
The network layer needs this to convert to using struct device instead
of a struct class_device.

Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-09-25 21:08:38 -07:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman
2620efef70 Driver core: add ability for classes to handle devices properly
This adds two new callbacks to the class structure:
	int	(*dev_uevent)(struct device *dev, char **envp, int num_envp,
			char *buffer, int buffer_size);
	void	(*dev_release)(struct device *dev);

And one pointer:
	struct device_attribute		* dev_attrs;

which all corrispond with the same thing as the "normal" class devices
do, yet this is for when a struct device is bound to a class.

Someday soon, struct class_device will go away, and then the other
fields in this structure can be removed too.  But this is necessary in
order to get the transition to work properly.

Tested out on a network core patch that converted it to use struct
device instead of struct class_device.


Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-09-25 21:08:38 -07:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman
64bb5d2c11 Driver core: allow devices in classes to have no parent
This fixes an oops when a device is attached to a class, yet has no
"parent" device.  An example of this would be the "lo" device in the
network core.

We should create a "virtual" subdirectory under /sys/devices/ for these,
but no one seems to agree on a proper name for it yet...

Oh, and update my copyright on the driver core.

Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-09-25 21:08:38 -07:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman
de0ff00d72 Driver core: add groups support to struct device
This is needed for the network class devices in order to be able to
convert over to use struct device.

Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-09-25 21:08:38 -07:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman
5cbe5f8a58 device_create(): make fmt argument 'const char *'
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-09-25 21:08:36 -07:00
Kay Sievers
d81d9d6b9f deprecate PHYSDEV* keys
deprecate PHYSDEV* values in the uevent environment

These values are no longer needed and inconsistent with the
stacking of class devices. The event environment should not
carry properties of a parent device. The key PHYSDEVDRIVER is
available as DRIVER, PHYDEVBUS is indentical SUBSYSTEM. Class
devices should not carry any of these values.

Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-09-25 21:08:36 -07:00
Henrik Kretzschmar
42734dafa4 [PATCH] Driver core: kernel-doc in drivers/base/core.c corrections
Corrects the kerneldocs for device_create() and device_destroy()
with an eye on coding style, grammar and readability.

Signed-off-by: Henrik Kretzschmar <henne@nachtwindheim.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-07-12 16:09:08 -07:00
Randy Dunlap
7d12e9de5d [PATCH] Driver core: fix driver-core kernel-doc
Warning(/var/linsrc/linux-2617-g4//drivers/base/core.c:574): No description found for parameter 'class'
Warning(/var/linsrc/linux-2617-g4//drivers/base/core.c:574): No description found for parameter 'devt'
Warning(/var/linsrc/linux-2617-g4//drivers/base/core.c:626): No description found for parameter 'devt'

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-07-12 16:09:08 -07:00