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authorGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>2007-11-02 23:20:40 +0300
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>2008-01-25 07:40:19 +0300
commit9e5f7f9abe18a4f134585a2de016974cbda80539 (patch)
tree895be0970aadd1b4e8584891d546ef4379a15e40
parent334c6307543a2b8af730a422f466d5f9442b606a (diff)
downloadlinux-9e5f7f9abe18a4f134585a2de016974cbda80539.tar.xz
firmware: export firmware_kset so that people can use that instead of the braindead firmware_register interface
Needed for future firmware subsystem cleanups. In the end, the firmware_register/unregister functions will be deleted entirely, but we need this symbol so that subsystems can migrate over. Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Cc: Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com> Cc: Matt Tolentino <matthew.e.tolentino@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
-rw-r--r--drivers/base/firmware.c3
-rw-r--r--include/linux/kobject.h2
2 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/base/firmware.c b/drivers/base/firmware.c
index 6a4e494042f6..c7f635b11dfd 100644
--- a/drivers/base/firmware.c
+++ b/drivers/base/firmware.c
@@ -15,7 +15,8 @@
#include "base.h"
-static struct kset *firmware_kset;
+struct kset *firmware_kset;
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(firmware_kset);
int firmware_register(struct kset *s)
{
diff --git a/include/linux/kobject.h b/include/linux/kobject.h
index e694261de90f..29dc444e3361 100644
--- a/include/linux/kobject.h
+++ b/include/linux/kobject.h
@@ -210,6 +210,8 @@ extern struct kset *kernel_kset;
extern struct kobject *hypervisor_kobj;
/* The global /sys/power/ kset for people to chain off of */
extern struct kset *power_kset;
+/* The global /sys/firmware/ kset for people to chain off of */
+extern struct kset *firmware_kset;
extern int __must_check subsystem_register(struct kset *);
extern void subsystem_unregister(struct kset *);