kernel/linux.git/include/linux/device.h, branch linux-2.6.35.y

Merge remote branch 'origin' into secretlab/next-devicetree

2010-05-22T06:36:56+00:00

Merging in current state of Linus' tree to deal with merge conflicts and build failures in vio.c after merge. Conflicts: drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-cpm.c drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-mpc.c drivers/net/gianfar.c Also fixed up one line in arch/powerpc/kernel/vio.c to use the correct node pointer. Signed-off-by: Grant Likely

drivercore: Add of_match_table to the common device drivers

2010-05-22T06:10:40+00:00

OF-style matching can be available to any device, on any type of bus. This patch allows any driver to provide an OF match table when CONFIG_OF is enabled so that drivers can be bound against devices described in the device tree. Signed-off-by: Grant Likely Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

kobj: Add basic infrastructure for dealing with namespaces.

2010-05-21T16:37:31+00:00

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

drivers/base: Convert dev->sem to mutex

2010-05-21T16:37:30+00:00

The semaphore is semantically a mutex. Convert it to a real mutex and fix up a few places where code was relying on semaphore.h to be included by device.h, as well as the users of the trylock function, as that value is now reversed. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

driver-core: Add device node pointer to struct device

2010-04-29T00:20:57+00:00

Currently, platforms using CONFIG_OF add a 'struct device_node *of_node' to dev->archdata. However, with CONFIG_OF becoming generic for all architectures, it makes sense for commonality to move it out of archdata and into struct device proper. This patch adds a struct device_node *of_node member to struct device and updates all locations which currently write the device_node pointer into archdata to also update dev->of_node. Subsequent patches will modify callers to use the archdata location and ultimately remove the archdata member entirely. Signed-off-by: Grant Likely Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman CC: Michal Simek CC: Greg Kroah-Hartman CC: Benjamin Herrenschmidt CC: "David S. Miller" CC: Stephen Rothwell CC: Jeremy Kerr CC: microblaze-uclinux@itee.uq.edu.au CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org CC: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org CC: sparclinux@vger.kernel.org

driver core: Early dev_name() support.

2010-03-10T04:08:32+00:00

Presently early platform devices suffer from the fact they are unable to use dev_xxx() calls early on due to dev_name() and others being unavailable at the time ->probe() is called. This implements early init_name construction from the matched name/id pair following the semantics of the late device/driver match. As a result, matched IDs (inclusive of requested ones) are preserved when the handoff from the early platform code happens at kobject initialization time. Since we still require kmalloc slabs to be available at this point, using kstrdup() for establishing the init_name works fine. This subsequently needs to be tested from dev_name() prior to the init_name being cleared by the driver core. We don't kfree() since others will already have a handle on the string long before the kobject initialization takes place. This is also needed to permit drivers to use the clock framework early, without having to manually construct their own device IDs from the match id/name pair locally (needed by the early console and timer code on sh and arm). Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

Driver core: create lock/unlock functions for struct device

2010-03-08T01:04:52+00:00

In the future, we are going to be changing the lock type for struct device (once we get the lockdep infrastructure properly worked out) To make that changeover easier, and to possibly burry the lock in a different part of struct device, let's create some functions to lock and unlock a device so that no out-of-core code needs to be changed in the future. This patch creates the device_lock/unlock/trylock() functions, and converts all in-tree users to them. Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Jean Delvare Cc: Dave Young Cc: Ming Lei Cc: Jiri Kosina Cc: Phil Carmody Cc: Arjan van de Ven Cc: Cornelia Huck Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki Cc: Pavel Machek Cc: Len Brown Cc: Magnus Damm Cc: Alan Stern Cc: Randy Dunlap Cc: Stefan Richter Cc: David Brownell Cc: Vegard Nossum Cc: Jesse Barnes Cc: Alex Chiang Cc: Kenji Kaneshige Cc: Andrew Morton Cc: Andrew Patterson Cc: Yu Zhao Cc: Dominik Brodowski Cc: Samuel Ortiz Cc: Wolfram Sang Cc: CHENG Renquan Cc: Oliver Neukum Cc: Frans Pop Cc: David Vrabel Cc: Kay Sievers Cc: Sarah Sharp Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

driver core: Add class_attr_string for simple read-only string

2010-03-08T01:04:48+00:00

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

2010-03-08T01:04:48+00:00

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

PM: Add facility for advanced testing of async suspend/resume

2010-02-26T19:39:10+00:00

Add configuration switch CONFIG_PM_ADVANCED_DEBUG for compiling in extra PM debugging/testing code allowing one to access some PM-related attributes of devices from the user space via sysfs. If CONFIG_PM_ADVANCED_DEBUG is set, add sysfs attribute power/async for every device allowing the user space to access the device's power.async_suspend flag and modify it, if desired. Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki