sysfs, kernfs: introduce kernfs_notify()
authorTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Thu, 28 Nov 2013 19:54:27 +0000 (14:54 -0500)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Sat, 30 Nov 2013 01:48:14 +0000 (17:48 -0800)
commit024f647117d697165aaadf3f1af1343b7000149a
tree79dcad5d6babfe359c443093fe7e5bed84322ef7
parentd19b9846df64d8845be682b6318bd1aee246cf60
sysfs, kernfs: introduce kernfs_notify()

Introduce kernfs interface to wake up poll(2) which takes and returns
sysfs_dirents.

sysfs_notify_dirent() is renamed to kernfs_notify() and sysfs_notify()
is updated so that it doesn't directly grab sysfs_mutex but acquires
the target sysfs_dirents using sysfs_get_dirent().
sysfs_notify_dirent() is reimplemented as a dumb inline wrapper around
kernfs_notify().

This patch doesn't introduce any behavior changes.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
fs/sysfs/file.c
include/linux/kernfs.h
include/linux/sysfs.h