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2007-10-12Driver core: remove subsys_put()Greg Kroah-Hartman
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>
2007-10-12Driver core: remove kset_set_kset_sGreg Kroah-Hartman
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>
2007-10-12Driver core: remove subsys_set_ksetGreg Kroah-Hartman
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>
2007-10-12Driver core: change add_uevent_var to use a structKay Sievers
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>
2007-07-30kset: kernel-doc cleanupsRandy Dunlap
Removed kernel-doc marker (/**) from struct kset -- each struct member still needs annotation. Corrected one parameter name so that kernel-doc matches the macro. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-07-30kobject: put kobject_actions in kobject.hGreg Kroah-Hartman
This prevents the extern declaration in the driver core. Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-07-18Driver core: accept all valid action-strings in uevent-triggerKay Sievers
This allows the uevent file to handle any type of uevent action to be triggered by userspace instead of just the "add" uevent. Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-07-11sysfs: make kobj point to sysfs_dirent instead of dentryTejun Heo
As kobj sysfs dentries and inodes are gonna be made reclaimable, dentry can't be used as naming token for sysfs file/directory, replace kobj->dentry with kobj->sd. The only external interface change is shadow directory handling. All other changes are contained in kobj and sysfs. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-05-02remove "struct subsystem" as it is no longer neededGreg Kroah-Hartman
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>
2007-04-27the overdue removal of the mount/umount ueventsAdrian Bunk
This patch contains the overdue removal of the mount/umount uevents. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-04-27kobject core: remove rwsem from struct subsystemGreg Kroah-Hartman
It isn't used at all by the driver core anymore, and the few usages of it within the kernel have now all been fixed as most of them were using it incorrectly. So remove it. Now the whole struct subsys can be removed from the system, but that's for a later patch... Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-04-27driver core: fix namespace issue with devices assigned to classesKay Sievers
- 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>
2007-02-07sysfs: Shadow directory supportEric W. Biederman
The problem. When implementing a network namespace I need to be able to have multiple network devices with the same name. Currently this is a problem for /sys/class/net/*. What I want is a separate /sys/class/net directory in sysfs for each network namespace, and I want to name each of them /sys/class/net. I looked and the VFS actually allows that. All that is needed is for /sys/class/net to implement a follow link method to redirect lookups to the real directory you want. Implementing a follow link method that is sensitive to the current network namespace turns out to be 3 lines of code so it looks like a clean approach. Modifying sysfs so it doesn't get in my was is a bit trickier. I am calling the concept of multiple directories all at the same path in the filesystem shadow directories. With the directory entry really at that location the shadow master. The following patch modifies sysfs so it can handle a directory structure slightly different from the kobject tree so I can implement the shadow directories for handling /sys/class/net/. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Maneesh Soni <maneesh@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-12-20kobject: kobject_uevent() returns manageable valueAneesh Kumar K.V
Since kobject_uevent() function does not return an integer value to indicate if its operation was completed with success or not, it is worth changing it in order to report a proper status (success or error) instead of returning void. [randy.dunlap@oracle.com: Fix inline kobject functions] Cc: Mauricio Lin <mauriciolin@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-12-01driver core: Introduce device_move(): move a device to a new parent.Cornelia Huck
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>
2006-09-25add __must_check to device management codeAndrew Morton
We're getting a lot of crashes in the sysfs/kobject/device/bus/class code and they're very hard to diagnose. I'm suspecting that in some cases this is because drivers aren't checking return values and aren't handling errors correctly. So the code blithely blunders on and crashes later in very obscure ways. There's just no reason to ignore errors which can and do occur. So the patch sprinkles __must_check all over these APIs. Causes 1,513 new warnings. Heh. Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-08-03PCI: docking station: remove dock ueventsKristen Carlson Accardi
Remove uevent dock notifications. There are no consumers of these events at present, and uevents are likely not the correct way to send this type of event anyway. Until I get some kind of idea if anyone in userspace cares about dock events, I will just not send any. Signed-off-by: Kristen Carlson Accardi <kristen.c.accardi@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-06-27KEVENT: add new uevent for dockKristen Accardi
so that userspace can be notified of dock and undock events. Signed-off-by: Kristen Carlson Accardi <kristen.c.accardi@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2006-06-21[PATCH] Driver Core: Add /sys/hypervisor when neededMichael Holzheu
To have a home for all hypervisors, this patch creates /sys/hypervisor. A new config option SYS_HYPERVISOR is introduced, which should to be set by architecture dependent hypervisors (e.g. s390 or Xen). Acked-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Michael Holzheu <holzheu@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-04-27[PATCH] Kobject: possible cleanupsAdrian Bunk
This patch contains the following possible cleanups: - #if 0 the following unused global function: - subsys_remove_file() - remove the following unused EXPORT_SYMBOL's: - kset_find_obj - subsystem_init - remove the following unused EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL: - kobject_add_dir Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-04-27[PATCH] Kobject: fix build errorKay Sievers
This fixes a build error for various odd combinations of CONFIG_HOTPLUG and CONFIG_NET. Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Cc: Nigel Cunningham <ncunningham@cyclades.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-04-14[PATCH] sysfs: Allow sysfs attribute files to be pollableNeilBrown
It works like this: Open the file Read all the contents. Call poll requesting POLLERR or POLLPRI (so select/exceptfds works) When poll returns, close the file and go to top of loop. or lseek to start of file and go back to the 'read'. Events are signaled by an object manager calling sysfs_notify(kobj, dir, attr); If the dir is non-NULL, it is used to find a subdirectory which contains the attribute (presumably created by sysfs_create_group). This has a cost of one int per attribute, one wait_queuehead per kobject, one int per open file. The name "sysfs_notify" may be confused with the inotify functionality. Maybe it would be nice to support inotify for sysfs attributes as well? This patch also uses sysfs_notify to allow /sys/block/md*/md/sync_action to be pollable Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-03-20[PATCH] kobject_add_dirJun'ichi Nomura
Adding kobject_add_dir() function which creates a subdirectory for a given kobject. Signed-off-by: Jun'ichi Nomura <j-nomura@ce.jp.nec.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-03-20[PATCH] Kobject: kobject.h: fix a typoAdrian Bunk
It shouldn't cause real harm, but it hurts my eyes. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-02-22Revert mount/umount uevent removalGreg Kroah-Hartman
This change reverts the 033b96fd30db52a710d97b06f87d16fc59fee0f1 commit from Kay Sievers that removed the mount/umount uevents from the kernel. Some older versions of HAL still depend on these events to detect when a new device has been mounted. These events are not correctly emitted, and are broken by design, and so, should not be relied upon by any future program. Instead, the /proc/mounts file should be polled to properly detect this kind of event. A feature-removal-schedule.txt entry has been added, noting when this interface will be removed from the kernel. Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-01-04[PATCH] kobject_uevent CONFIG_NET=n fixakpm@osdl.org
lib/lib.a(kobject_uevent.o)(.text+0x25f): In function `kobject_uevent': : undefined reference to `__alloc_skb' lib/lib.a(kobject_uevent.o)(.text+0x2a1): In function `kobject_uevent': : undefined reference to `skb_over_panic' lib/lib.a(kobject_uevent.o)(.text+0x31d): In function `kobject_uevent': : undefined reference to `skb_over_panic' lib/lib.a(kobject_uevent.o)(.text+0x356): In function `kobject_uevent': : undefined reference to `netlink_broadcast' lib/lib.a(kobject_uevent.o)(.init.text+0x9): In function `kobject_uevent_init': : undefined reference to `netlink_kernel_create' make: *** [.tmp_vmlinux1] Error 1 Netlink is unconditionally enabled if CONFIG_NET, so that's OK. kobject_uevent.o is compiled even if !CONFIG_HOTPLUG, which is lazy. Let's compound the sin. Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-01-04[PATCH] driver core: replace "hotplug" by "uevent"Kay Sievers
Leave the overloaded "hotplug" word to susbsystems which are handling real devices. The driver core does not "plug" anything, it just exports the state to userspace and generates events. Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-01-04[PATCH] merge kobject_uevent and kobject_hotplugKay Sievers
The distinction between hotplug and uevent does not make sense these days, netlink events are the default. udev depends entirely on netlink uevents. Only during early boot and in initramfs, /sbin/hotplug is needed. So merge the two functions and provide only one interface without all the options. The netlink layer got a nice generic interface with named slots recently, which is probably a better facility to plug events for subsystem specific events. Also the new poll() interface to /proc/mounts is a nicer way to notify about changes than sending events through the core. The uevents should only be used for driver core related requests to userspace now. Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-01-04[PATCH] remove mount/umount uevents from superblock handlingKay Sievers
The names of these events have been confusing from the beginning on, as they have been more like claim/release events. We needed these events for noticing HAL if storage devices have been mounted. Thanks to Al, we have the proper solution now and can poll() /proc/mounts instead to get notfied about mount tree changes. Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-01-04[PATCH] remove CONFIG_KOBJECT_UEVENT optionKay Sievers
It makes zero sense to have hotplug, but not the netlink events enabled today. Remove this option and merge the kobject_uevent.h header into the kobject.h header file. Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2005-10-28[PATCH] gfp_t: lib/*Al Viro
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-20[PATCH] kset_hotplug_ops->name shoudl return const char *Dmitry Torokhov
kobject: change name() method in kset_hotplug_ops return const char * since users shoudl not try to modify returned data. Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2005-06-20[PATCH] Make kobject's name be const char *Dmitry Torokhov
kobject: make kobject's name const char * since users should not attempt to change it (except by calling kobject_rename). Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2005-03-08[PATCH] kset: make ksets have a spinlock, and use that to lock their listsGreg Kroah-Hartman
Do this instead of using the rwsem of a subsys. Smaller, faster, and I'm trying to get rid of the rwsem in the subsys. Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2005-02-01[PATCH] kobject build fixManish Lachwani
include/linux/kobject.h: In function `to_kset': include/linux/kobject.h:116: warning: implicit declaration of function `container_of' Signed-off-by: Manish Lachwani <mlachwani@mvista.com> Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2004-12-21sysfs: export the /sys/kernel subsystem for people to use.Greg Kroah-Hartman
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <greg@kroah.com>
2004-09-29[PATCH] kobject: add add_hotplug_env_var()Roland Dreier
Add a (non-inlined) add_hotplug_env_var() function to <linux/kobject.h> and lib/kobject.c. There's a lot of boilerplate code involved in setting environment variables in a hotplug method, so we should have a convenience function to consolidate it (and avoid subtle bugs). Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier <roland@topspin.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <greg@kroah.com>
2004-09-14kevent: standardize on the event typesGreg Kroah-Hartman
This prevents any potential typos from happening. Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <greg@kroah.com>
2004-09-10Kobject Userspace Event NotificationGreg Kroah-Hartman
Implemetation of userspace events through a netlink socket. The kernel events layer provides the functionality to raise an event from a given kobject represented by its sysfs-path and a signal string to describe the type of event. Currently, kobject additions and removals are signalized to userspace by forking the /sbin/hotplug helper. This patch moves this special case of userspace-event out of the kobject core to the new kobject_uevent implementation. This makes it possible to send all hotplug messages also through the new netlink transport. Possible new users of the kernel userspace functionality are filesystem mount events (block device claim/release) or simple device state transitions (cpu overheating). To send an event, the user needs to pass the kobject, a optional sysfs-attribute and the signal string to the following function: kobject_uevent(const char *signal, struct kobject *kobj, struct attribute *attr) Example: kobject_uevent("overheating", &cpu->kobj, NULL); The message itself is sent over multicast netlink socket, which makes it possible for userspace to listen with multiple applications for the same messages. Signed-off-by: Robert Love <rml@novell.com> Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <greg@kroah.com>
2004-09-08[PATCH] kobject: hotplug_seqnum is not 64 bits on all platforms, so fix it.Greg Kroah-Hartman
Thanks to Kay Sievers for pointing this out. Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <greg@kroah.com>
2004-09-04[PATCH] export of SEQNUM to userspace (creates /sys/kernel)Kay Sievers
o /sys/kernel/hotplug_seqnum exports the current number o lib/kobject.c's sequence_num is renamed to hotplug_seqnum and exported by include/linux/kobject.h o the source file ksysfs.c in kernel/ creates on init the sybsystem "/sys/kernel/" in sysfs Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <greg@kroah.com>
2004-09-01Use "ifdef" rather than "if" to test for __KERNEL__Linus Torvalds
Both work, but the latter can cause warnings in user space from compilers that don't like using undefined identifiers in preprocessor expressions (quite reasonable). Pointed out by Randy Dunlap.
2004-08-31Allow the compiler to notice "constant" header file.Linus Torvalds
Both gcc and sparse will speed up tokenization by noticing when a header file is protected by the standard preprocessor #ifndef .. #endif exclusion. However, that requires that the headers actually _use_ that standard exclusion. Some did their own little broken dance.
2004-08-24kobject: convert struct kobject use kref.Greg Kroah-Hartman
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <greg@kroah.com>
2004-08-06[PATCH] KOBJECT: add kobject_get_pathRobert Love
Add a new kobject helper, kobject_get_path(), which is the greatest function ever. Signed-Off-By: Robert Love <rml@ximian.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <greg@kroah.com>
2004-05-13[PATCH] sysfs_rename_dir-cleanupManeesh Soni
o The following patch cleans up sysfs_rename_dir(). It now checks the return code of kobject_set_name() and propagates the error code to its callers. Because of this there are changes in the following two APIs. Both return int instead of void. int sysfs_rename_dir(struct kobject * kobj, const char *new_name) int kobject_rename(struct kobject * kobj, char *new_name)
2004-03-10Kobject: add decl_subsys_name() macro for users who want to set the ↵Greg Kroah-Hartman
subsystem name
2004-01-19[PATCH] kobject: make kobject hotplug function publicDmitry Torokhov
make kobject hotplug mechanism public so that others may call it.
2003-08-28[kobject] Support unlimited name lengths.Patrick Mochel
Add ->k_name pointer which points to the name for a kobject. By default, this points to ->name (the static name array). Users of kobjects may use the helper function kobject_set_name() (and are encouraged to do so in all cases). This function will determined whether or not the name is short enough to fit in ->name. If so, great. Otherwise, a dyanamic string is allocated and the name is stored there. ->k_name will point to that, and will be freed when the kobject is released. kobject_set_name() may take a format string, like: kobject_set_name(kobj,"%s%d",base_name,id); and will behave as expected (will put in ->name, unless it's too long, in which case a new string will be allocated and it will be stored in there).
2003-07-03[PATCH] kobject: add kobject_rename()Greg Kroah-Hartman
Based on a patch written by Dan Aloni <da-x@gmx.net>