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-rw-r--r--Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-devices10
-rw-r--r--drivers/base/core.c16
2 files changed, 24 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-devices b/Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-devices
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..43f78b88da28
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-devices
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+# Note: This documents additional properties of any device beyond what
+# is documented in Documentation/sysfs-rules.txt
+
+What: /sys/devices/*/of_path
+Date: February 2015
+Contact: Device Tree mailing list <devicetree@vger.kernel.org>
+Description:
+ Any device associated with a device-tree node will have
+ an of_path symlink pointing to the corresponding device
+ node in /sys/firmware/devicetree/
diff --git a/drivers/base/core.c b/drivers/base/core.c
index e0998b6b6c49..cadf165651d8 100644
--- a/drivers/base/core.c
+++ b/drivers/base/core.c
@@ -805,8 +805,16 @@ static void cleanup_device_parent(struct device *dev)
static int device_add_class_symlinks(struct device *dev)
{
+ struct device_node *of_node = dev_of_node(dev);
int error;
+ if (of_node) {
+ error = sysfs_create_link(&dev->kobj, &of_node->kobj,"of_node");
+ if (error)
+ dev_warn(dev, "Error %d creating of_node link\n",error);
+ /* An error here doesn't warrant bringing down the device */
+ }
+
if (!dev->class)
return 0;
@@ -814,7 +822,7 @@ static int device_add_class_symlinks(struct device *dev)
&dev->class->p->subsys.kobj,
"subsystem");
if (error)
- goto out;
+ goto out_devnode;
if (dev->parent && device_is_not_partition(dev)) {
error = sysfs_create_link(&dev->kobj, &dev->parent->kobj,
@@ -842,12 +850,16 @@ out_device:
out_subsys:
sysfs_remove_link(&dev->kobj, "subsystem");
-out:
+out_devnode:
+ sysfs_remove_link(&dev->kobj, "of_node");
return error;
}
static void device_remove_class_symlinks(struct device *dev)
{
+ if (dev_of_node(dev))
+ sysfs_remove_link(&dev->kobj, "of_node");
+
if (!dev->class)
return;