kernel/linux.git/include/linux/kobject.h, branch linux-2.6.22.y

remove "struct subsystem" as it is no longer needed

2007-05-03T01:57:59+00:00

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

the overdue removal of the mount/umount uevents

2007-04-27T17:57:31+00:00

This patch contains the overdue removal of the mount/umount uevents. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

kobject core: remove rwsem from struct subsystem

2007-04-27T17:57:31+00:00

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 Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

driver core: fix namespace issue with devices assigned to classes

2007-04-27T17:57:28+00:00

- 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 Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

sysfs: Shadow directory support

2007-02-07T18:37:14+00:00

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 Cc: Maneesh Soni Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

kobject: kobject_uevent() returns manageable value

2006-12-20T18:56:44+00:00

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 Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

driver core: Introduce device_move(): move a device to a new parent.

2006-12-01T22:52:01+00:00

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 Acked-by: Kay Sievers Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

add __must_check to device management code

2006-09-26T04:08:39+00:00

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 Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

PCI: docking station: remove dock uevents

2006-08-03T20:20:06+00:00

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 Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

KEVENT: add new uevent for dock

2006-06-27T05:24:15+00:00

so that userspace can be notified of dock and undock events. Signed-off-by: Kristen Carlson Accardi Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Len Brown