Merge tag 'driver-core-3.18-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core

Pull driver core update from Greg KH:
 "Here's the driver core patches for 3.18-rc1.  Just a few small things,
  and the addition of a new interface to dump firmware "core dumps" to
  userspace through sysfs that the wireless and graphic drivers want to
  use.

  All of these have been in linux-next for a while"

* tag 'driver-core-3.18-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core:
  dynamic_debug: change __dynamic_<foo>_dbg return types to void
  driver/base/node: remove unnecessary kfree of node struct from unregister_one_node
  devres: Improve devm_kasprintf()/kvasprintf() support
  Documentation: devres: Add missing devm_kstrdup() managed interface
  Documentation: devres: Add missing IRQ functions
  firmware_class: make sure fw requests contain a name
  driver core: Remove kerneldoc from local function
  attribute_container: fix coding style issues
  attribute_container: fix whitespace errors
  drivers/base: Fix length checks in create_syslog_header()/dev_vprintk_emit()
  device coredump: add new device coredump class
  Documentation/sysfs-rules.txt: Add device attribute error code documentation

2 files changed, 26 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/driver-model/devres.txt b/Documentation/driver-model/devres.txt
index d14710b04439..40677443c0c5 100644
--- a/Documentation/driver-model/devres.txt
+++ b/Documentation/driver-model/devres.txt
@@ -281,7 +281,9 @@ IOMAP
 
 IRQ
   devm_free_irq()
+  devm_request_any_context_irq()
   devm_request_irq()
+  devm_request_threaded_irq()
 
 MDIO
   devm_mdiobus_alloc()
@@ -291,11 +293,14 @@ MDIO
 MEM
   devm_free_pages()
   devm_get_free_pages()
+  devm_kasprintf()
   devm_kcalloc()
   devm_kfree()
   devm_kmalloc()
   devm_kmalloc_array()
   devm_kmemdup()
+  devm_kstrdup()
+  devm_kvasprintf()
   devm_kzalloc()
 
 PCI
diff --git a/Documentation/sysfs-rules.txt b/Documentation/sysfs-rules.txt
index a5f985ee1822..ce60ffa94d2d 100644
--- a/Documentation/sysfs-rules.txt
+++ b/Documentation/sysfs-rules.txt
@@ -161,3 +161,24 @@ versions of the sysfs interface.
   the device that matches the expected subsystem. Depending on a specific
   position of a parent device or exposing relative paths using "../" to
   access the chain of parents is a bug in the application.
+
+- When reading and writing sysfs device attribute files, avoid dependency
+  on specific error codes wherever possible. This minimizes coupling to
+  the error handling implementation within the kernel.
+
+  In general, failures to read or write sysfs device attributes shall
+  propagate errors wherever possible. Common errors include, but are not
+  limited to:
+
+  -EIO: The read or store operation is not supported, typically returned by
+        the sysfs system itself if the read or store pointer is NULL.
+
+  -ENXIO: The read or store operation failed
+
+  Error codes will not be changed without good reason, and should a change
+  to error codes result in user-space breakage, it will be fixed, or the
+  the offending change will be reverted.
+
+  Userspace applications can, however, expect the format and contents of
+  the attribute files to remain consistent in the absence of a version
+  attribute change in the context of a given attribute.