GitHub/LineageOS/G12/android_kernel_amlogic_linux-4.9.git
16 years agoKobject: change arch/ia64/kernel/topology.c to use kobject_init_and_add
Greg Kroah-Hartman [Mon, 17 Dec 2007 19:54:39 +0000 (15:54 -0400)]
Kobject: change arch/ia64/kernel/topology.c to use kobject_init_and_add

Stop using kobject_register, as this way we can control the sending of
the uevent properly, after everything is properly initialized.

Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
16 years agoKobject: change drivers/parisc/pdc_stable.c to use kobject_init_and_add
Greg Kroah-Hartman [Mon, 17 Dec 2007 19:54:39 +0000 (15:54 -0400)]
Kobject: change drivers/parisc/pdc_stable.c to use kobject_init_and_add

Stop using kobject_register, as this way we can control the sending of
the uevent properly, after everything is properly initialized.

Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@parisc-linux.org>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
Cc: Grant Grundler <grundler@parisc-linux.org>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
16 years agoKobject: change drivers/net/ibmveth.c to use kobject_init_and_add
Greg Kroah-Hartman [Mon, 17 Dec 2007 19:54:39 +0000 (15:54 -0400)]
Kobject: change drivers/net/ibmveth.c to use kobject_init_and_add

Stop using kobject_register, as this way we can control the sending of
the uevent properly, after everything is properly initialized.

Cc: Dave Larson <larson1@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Santiago Leon <santil@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
16 years agoKobject: change arch/sh/kernel/cpu/sh4/sq.c to use kobject_init_and_add
Greg Kroah-Hartman [Mon, 17 Dec 2007 19:54:39 +0000 (15:54 -0400)]
Kobject: change arch/sh/kernel/cpu/sh4/sq.c to use kobject_init_and_add

Stop using kobject_register, as this way we can control the sending of
the uevent properly, after everything is properly initialized.

Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
16 years agoKobject: change drivers/block/pktcdvd.c to use kobject_init_and_add
Greg Kroah-Hartman [Mon, 17 Dec 2007 19:54:39 +0000 (15:54 -0400)]
Kobject: change drivers/block/pktcdvd.c to use kobject_init_and_add

Stop using kobject_register, as this way we can control the sending of
the uevent properly, after everything is properly initialized.

Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
16 years agoKobject: change drivers/acpi/system.c to use kobject_create_and_add
Greg Kroah-Hartman [Mon, 17 Dec 2007 19:54:39 +0000 (15:54 -0400)]
Kobject: change drivers/acpi/system.c to use kobject_create_and_add

Stop using kobject_register for this static kobject, as it's overkill.
This way is much simpler.

Cc: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
16 years agoKobject: change arch/x86/kernel/cpu/intel_cacheinfo.c to use kobject_init_and_add
Greg Kroah-Hartman [Mon, 17 Dec 2007 19:54:39 +0000 (15:54 -0400)]
Kobject: change arch/x86/kernel/cpu/intel_cacheinfo.c to use kobject_init_and_add

Stop using kobject_register, as this way we can control the sending of
the uevent properly, after everything is properly initialized.

Cc: Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@intel.com>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
16 years agoKobject: change drivers/base/sys.c to use kobject_init_and_add
Greg Kroah-Hartman [Mon, 17 Dec 2007 19:54:39 +0000 (15:54 -0400)]
Kobject: change drivers/base/sys.c to use kobject_init_and_add

Stop using kobject_register, as this way we can control the sending of
the uevent properly, after everything is properly initialized.

Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
16 years agoKobject: change drivers/pci/hotplug/pci_hotplug_core.c to use kobject_init_and_add
Greg Kroah-Hartman [Mon, 17 Dec 2007 19:54:39 +0000 (15:54 -0400)]
Kobject: change drivers/pci/hotplug/pci_hotplug_core.c to use kobject_init_and_add

Stop using kobject_register, as this way we can control the sending of
the uevent properly, after everything is properly initialized.

Cc: Kristen Carlson Accardi <kristen.c.accardi@intel.com>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
16 years agoKobject: change drivers/cpuidle/sysfs.c to use kobject_init_and_add
Greg Kroah-Hartman [Mon, 17 Dec 2007 19:54:39 +0000 (15:54 -0400)]
Kobject: change drivers/cpuidle/sysfs.c to use kobject_init_and_add

Stop using kobject_register, as this way we can control the sending of
the uevent properly, after everything is properly initialized.

Cc: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
16 years agoKobject: change drivers/edac to use kobject_init_and_add
Greg Kroah-Hartman [Mon, 17 Dec 2007 19:54:39 +0000 (15:54 -0400)]
Kobject: change drivers/edac to use kobject_init_and_add

Stop using kobject_register, as this way we can control the sending of
the uevent properly, after everything is properly initialized.

Acked-by: Doug Thompson <dougthompson@xmission.com>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
16 years agoKobject: change drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c to use kobject_init_and_add
Greg Kroah-Hartman [Mon, 17 Dec 2007 19:54:39 +0000 (15:54 -0400)]
Kobject: change drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c to use kobject_init_and_add

Stop using kobject_register, as this way we can control the sending of
the uevent properly, after everything is properly initialized.

Cc: Dominik Brodowski <linux@brodo.de>
Cc: Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@intel.com>
Cc: Jacob Shin <jacob.shin@amd.com>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
16 years agoKobject: change drivers/firmware/efivars.c to use kobject_init_and_add
Greg Kroah-Hartman [Mon, 17 Dec 2007 19:54:39 +0000 (15:54 -0400)]
Kobject: change drivers/firmware/efivars.c to use kobject_init_and_add

Stop using kobject_register, as this way we can control the sending of
the uevent properly, after everything is properly initialized.

Cc: Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
16 years agoKobject: change drivers/firmware/edd.c to use kobject_init_and_add
Greg Kroah-Hartman [Mon, 17 Dec 2007 19:54:39 +0000 (15:54 -0400)]
Kobject: change drivers/firmware/edd.c to use kobject_init_and_add

Stop using kobject_register, as this way we can control the sending of
the uevent properly, after everything is properly initialized.

Cc: Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
16 years agoKobject: change drivers/infiniband to use kobject_init_and_add
Greg Kroah-Hartman [Mon, 17 Dec 2007 19:54:39 +0000 (15:54 -0400)]
Kobject: change drivers/infiniband to use kobject_init_and_add

Stop using kobject_register, as this way we can control the sending of
the uevent properly, after everything is properly initialized.

Cc: Roland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com>
Cc: Sean Hefty <mshefty@ichips.intel.com>
Cc: Hal Rosenstock <hal.rosenstock@gmail.com>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
16 years agoKobject: change GFS2 to use kobject_init_and_add
Greg Kroah-Hartman [Mon, 17 Dec 2007 19:54:39 +0000 (15:54 -0400)]
Kobject: change GFS2 to use kobject_init_and_add

Stop using kobject_register, as this way we can control the sending of
the uevent properly, after everything is properly initialized.

Cc: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
16 years agoKobject: change net/bridge to use kobject_create_and_add
Greg Kroah-Hartman [Mon, 17 Dec 2007 19:54:39 +0000 (15:54 -0400)]
Kobject: change net/bridge to use kobject_create_and_add

The kobject in the bridge code is only used for registering with sysfs,
not for any lifespan rules.  This patch changes it to be only a pointer
and use the simpler api for this kind of thing.

Cc: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
16 years agoUIO: fix kobject usage
Greg Kroah-Hartman [Tue, 4 Dec 2007 22:41:54 +0000 (22:41 +0000)]
UIO: fix kobject usage

The uio kobject code is "wierd".  This patch should hopefully fix it up
to be sane and not leak memory anymore.

Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Benedikt Spranger <b.spranger@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Hans J. Koch <hjk@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
16 years agokobject: clean up debugging messages
Greg Kroah-Hartman [Thu, 29 Nov 2007 07:49:41 +0000 (23:49 -0800)]
kobject: clean up debugging messages

The kobject debugging messages are a mess.  This provides a unified
message that makes them actually useful.

The format for new kobject debug messages should be:
kobject: 'KOBJECT_NAME' (ADDRESS): FUNCTION_NAME: message.\n

Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
16 years agokobject: grab the kset reference in kobject_add, not kobject_init
Greg Kroah-Hartman [Wed, 28 Nov 2007 18:46:22 +0000 (10:46 -0800)]
kobject: grab the kset reference in kobject_add, not kobject_init

kobject_init should not be grabing any references, but only initializing
the object.  This patch fixes this, and makes the lock hold-time shorter
for when a kset is present in the kobject.

The current kernel tree has been audited to verify that this change
should be safe.

Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
16 years agodriver core: make /sys/power a kobject
Greg Kroah-Hartman [Tue, 27 Nov 2007 19:28:26 +0000 (11:28 -0800)]
driver core: make /sys/power a kobject

/sys/power should not be a kset, that's overkill.  This patch renames it
to power_kset and fixes up all usages of it in the tree.

Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
16 years agodriver core: clean up device_shutdown
Greg Kroah-Hartman [Tue, 27 Nov 2007 06:11:55 +0000 (22:11 -0800)]
driver core: clean up device_shutdown

device_shutdown does not need to be in a separate file.  Move it into
the driver core file where it belongs.

This also moves us one more step closer to making devices_kset static,
now only the crazy sysdevs are keeping that from happening...

Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
16 years agodriver core: clean up shutdown.c
Greg Kroah-Hartman [Tue, 20 Nov 2007 21:56:21 +0000 (13:56 -0800)]
driver core: clean up shutdown.c

shutdown.c had some stuff it did not need, including a duplicate extern
in the power.h file.  This cleans up all of that.

Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
16 years agokobject: convert parisc/pdc_stable to use kobject_create
Greg Kroah-Hartman [Wed, 7 Nov 2007 21:56:19 +0000 (13:56 -0800)]
kobject: convert parisc/pdc_stable to use kobject_create

Using a kset for this simple directory is an overkill.

Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Cc: Thibaut VARENE <varenet@parisc-linux.org>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
Cc: Grant Grundler <grundler@parisc-linux.org>
Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@parisc-linux.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
16 years agokobject: convert efivars to use kobject_create
Greg Kroah-Hartman [Wed, 7 Nov 2007 21:56:19 +0000 (13:56 -0800)]
kobject: convert efivars to use kobject_create

Using a kset for this simple directory is an overkill.

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>
16 years agokobject: convert ecryptfs to use kobject_create
Greg Kroah-Hartman [Tue, 6 Nov 2007 23:08:08 +0000 (15:08 -0800)]
kobject: convert ecryptfs to use kobject_create

Using a kset for this trivial directory is an overkill.

Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Cc: Mike Halcrow <mhalcrow@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Phillip Hellewell <phillip@hellewell.homeip.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
16 years agokobject: clean up rpadlpar horrid sysfs abuse
Greg Kroah-Hartman [Tue, 6 Nov 2007 23:03:30 +0000 (15:03 -0800)]
kobject: clean up rpadlpar horrid sysfs abuse

rpadlpar pci hotplug driver was doing some pretty bad stuff with the
sysfs files.  This cleans up the logic to be sane and gets rid of the
gratuitous kset that is not needed for a simple directory like this.

Note, this patch is not even build tested, let alone run-time tested.
Someone with access to this hardware and can test would be greatly
appreciated.

Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Cc: John Rose <johnrose@austin.ibm.com>
Cc: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@gmail.com>
Cc: Kamalesh Babulal <kamalesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
16 years agokobject: remove subsystem_(un)register functions
Greg Kroah-Hartman [Tue, 6 Nov 2007 23:03:30 +0000 (15:03 -0800)]
kobject: remove subsystem_(un)register functions

These functions are no longer used and are the last remants of the old
subsystem crap.  So delete them for good.

Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
16 years agokobject: convert kernel_kset to be a kobject
Greg Kroah-Hartman [Tue, 6 Nov 2007 18:36:58 +0000 (10:36 -0800)]
kobject: convert kernel_kset to be a kobject

kernel_kset does not need to be a kset, but a much simpler kobject now
that we have kobj_attributes.

We also rename kernel_kset to kernel_kobj to catch all users of this
symbol with a build error instead of an easy-to-ignore build warning.

Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
16 years agokset: remove decl_subsys macro
Greg Kroah-Hartman [Fri, 2 Nov 2007 23:19:59 +0000 (16:19 -0700)]
kset: remove decl_subsys macro

This macro is no longer used.  ksets should be created dynamically with
a call to kset_create_and_add() not declared statically.

Yes, there are 5 remaining static struct kset usages in the kernel tree,
but they will be fixed up soon.

Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
16 years agokset: convert block_subsys to use kset_create
Greg Kroah-Hartman [Tue, 6 Nov 2007 18:36:58 +0000 (10:36 -0800)]
kset: convert block_subsys to use kset_create

Dynamically create the kset instead of declaring it statically.  We also
rename block_subsys to block_kset to catch all users of this symbol
with a build error instead of an easy-to-ignore build warning.

Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
16 years agokset: convert ocfs2 to use kset_create
Greg Kroah-Hartman [Fri, 2 Nov 2007 23:19:59 +0000 (16:19 -0700)]
kset: convert ocfs2 to use kset_create

Dynamically create the kset instead of declaring it statically.

Also use the new kobj_attribute which cleans up this file a _lot_.

Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Cc: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com>
Cc: Kurt Hackel <kurt.hackel@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
16 years agofirmware: change firmware_kset to firmware_kobj
Greg Kroah-Hartman [Mon, 5 Nov 2007 21:16:15 +0000 (13:16 -0800)]
firmware: change firmware_kset to firmware_kobj

There is no firmware "subsystem" it's just a directory in /sys that
other portions of the kernel want to hook into.  So make it a kobject
not a kset to help alivate anyone who tries to do some odd kset-like
things with this.

Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Cc: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
16 years agofirmware: remove firmware_(un)register()
Greg Kroah-Hartman [Fri, 2 Nov 2007 23:19:59 +0000 (16:19 -0700)]
firmware: remove firmware_(un)register()

These functions are no longer called or needed, so we can remove them.

As I rewrote the whole firmware.c file, add my copyright.

Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
16 years agokobject: convert /sys/firmware/acpi/ to use kobject_create
Greg Kroah-Hartman [Fri, 2 Nov 2007 23:19:59 +0000 (16:19 -0700)]
kobject: convert /sys/firmware/acpi/ to use kobject_create

We don't need a kset here, a simple kobject will do just fine, so
dynamically create the kobject and use it.

Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
16 years agokset: convert edd to use kset_create
Greg Kroah-Hartman [Fri, 2 Nov 2007 23:19:59 +0000 (16:19 -0700)]
kset: convert edd to use kset_create

Dynamically create the kset instead of declaring it statically.

Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Cc: Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
16 years agoDriver Core: kill subsys_attribute and default sysfs ops
Kay Sievers [Fri, 2 Nov 2007 12:47:53 +0000 (13:47 +0100)]
Driver Core: kill subsys_attribute and default sysfs ops

Remove the no longer needed subsys_attributes, they are all converted to
the more sensical kobj_attributes.

There is no longer a magic fallback in sysfs attribute operations, all
kobjects which create simple attributes need explicitely a ktype
assigned, which tells the core what was intended here.

Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
16 years agokset: convert parisc/pdc_stable.c to use kset_create
Greg Kroah-Hartman [Fri, 2 Nov 2007 22:25:00 +0000 (15:25 -0700)]
kset: convert parisc/pdc_stable.c to use kset_create

Dynamically create the kset instead of declaring it statically.
This makes the kobject attributes now work properly that I broke in the
previous patch.

Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Cc: Thibaut VARENE <varenet@parisc-linux.org>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
Cc: Grant Grundler <grundler@parisc-linux.org>
Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@parisc-linux.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
16 years agokobject: convert parisc/pdc_stable to kobj_attr interface
Greg Kroah-Hartman [Fri, 2 Nov 2007 22:25:00 +0000 (15:25 -0700)]
kobject: convert parisc/pdc_stable to kobj_attr interface

This makes the code a bit simpler and and gets us one step closer to
deleting the deprecated subsys_attr code.

NOTE, this needs the next patch in the series in order to work properly.
This will build, but the sysfs files will not properly operate.

Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Cc: Thibaut VARENE <varenet@parisc-linux.org>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
Cc: Grant Grundler <grundler@parisc-linux.org>
Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@parisc-linux.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
16 years agokset: convert s390 ipl.c to use kset_create
Greg Kroah-Hartman [Fri, 2 Nov 2007 21:17:00 +0000 (17:17 -0400)]
kset: convert s390 ipl.c to use kset_create

Dynamically create the kset instead of declaring it statically.
This makes the kobject attributes now work properly that I broke in the
previous patch.

Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Cc: Michael Holzheu <holzheu@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Volker Sameske <sameske@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
16 years agokobject: convert s390 ipl.c to kobj_attr interface
Greg Kroah-Hartman [Fri, 2 Nov 2007 21:17:00 +0000 (17:17 -0400)]
kobject: convert s390 ipl.c to kobj_attr interface

This makes the code a bit simpler and and gets us one step closer to
deleting the deprecated subsys_attr code.

NOTE, this needs the next patch in the series in order to work properly.
This will build, but the sysfs files will not properly operate.

Thanks to Cornelia for the build fix on this patch.

Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Cc: Michael Holzheu <holzheu@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Volker Sameske <sameske@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
16 years agokobject: convert pseries/power.c to kobj_attr interface
Greg Kroah-Hartman [Fri, 2 Nov 2007 20:20:40 +0000 (13:20 -0700)]
kobject: convert pseries/power.c to kobj_attr interface

This makes the code a bit simpler and and gets us one step closer to
deleting the deprecated subsys_attr code.

Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Cc: Manish Ahuja <mahuja@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
16 years agokobject: convert arm/mach-omap1/pm.c to kobj_attr interface
Greg Kroah-Hartman [Fri, 2 Nov 2007 20:20:40 +0000 (13:20 -0700)]
kobject: convert arm/mach-omap1/pm.c to kobj_attr interface

This makes the code a bit simpler and and gets us one step closer to
deleting the deprecated subsys_attr code.

Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Cc: Cliff Brake <cbrake@accelent.com>
Cc: Dirk Behme <dirk.behme@de.bosch.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
16 years agokset: convert efivars to use kset_create for the vars sub-subsystem.
Greg Kroah-Hartman [Fri, 2 Nov 2007 20:20:40 +0000 (13:20 -0700)]
kset: convert efivars to use kset_create for the vars sub-subsystem.

Dynamically create the kset instead of declaring it statically.

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>
16 years agokset: convert efivars to use kset_create for the efi subsystem.
Greg Kroah-Hartman [Fri, 2 Nov 2007 20:20:40 +0000 (13:20 -0700)]
kset: convert efivars to use kset_create for the efi subsystem.

Dynamically create the kset instead of declaring it statically.

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>
16 years agofirmware: export firmware_kset so that people can use that instead of the braindead...
Greg Kroah-Hartman [Fri, 2 Nov 2007 20:20:40 +0000 (13:20 -0700)]
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>
16 years agokobject: convert efivars to kobj_attr interface
Greg Kroah-Hartman [Fri, 2 Nov 2007 20:20:40 +0000 (13:20 -0700)]
kobject: convert efivars to kobj_attr interface

This cleans up a lot of code and gets rid of a unneeded macro, and gets
us one step closer to deleting the deprecated subsys_attr code.

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>
16 years agoefivars: make new_var and del_var binary sysfs files
Greg Kroah-Hartman [Wed, 7 Nov 2007 21:56:19 +0000 (13:56 -0800)]
efivars: make new_var and del_var binary sysfs files

These files should not be "normal" sysfs files as they really are binary
ones.  This patch makes them binary files and saves code in doing so.

Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Tested-by: Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>
Cc: Matt Tolentino <matthew.e.tolentino@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
16 years agoecryptfs: remove version_str file from sysfs
Greg Kroah-Hartman [Fri, 2 Nov 2007 20:20:40 +0000 (13:20 -0700)]
ecryptfs: remove version_str file from sysfs

This file violates the one-value-per-file sysfs rule.

If you all want it added back, please do something like a per-feature
file to show what is present and what isn't.

Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Cc: Mike Halcrow <mhalcrow@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Phillip Hellewell <phillip@hellewell.homeip.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
16 years agofix struct user_info export's sysfs interaction
Kay Sievers [Fri, 2 Nov 2007 12:47:53 +0000 (13:47 +0100)]
fix struct user_info export's sysfs interaction

Clean up the use of ksets and kobjects. Kobjects are instances of
objects (like struct user_info), ksets are collections of objects of a
similar type (like the uids directory containing the user_info directories).
So, use kobjects for the user_info directories, and a kset for the "uids"
directory.

On object cleanup, the final kobject_put() was missing.

Cc: Dhaval Giani <dhaval@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
16 years agoDriver Core: switch all dynamic ksets to kobj_sysfs_ops
Kay Sievers [Fri, 2 Nov 2007 12:47:53 +0000 (13:47 +0100)]
Driver Core: switch all dynamic ksets to kobj_sysfs_ops

Switch all dynamically created ksets, that export simple attributes,
to kobj_attribute from subsys_attribute. Struct subsys_attribute will
be removed.

Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Cc: Mike Halcrow <mhalcrow@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Phillip Hellewell <phillip@hellewell.homeip.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
16 years agoDriver Core: add kobj_attribute handling
Kay Sievers [Fri, 2 Nov 2007 12:47:53 +0000 (13:47 +0100)]
Driver Core: add kobj_attribute handling

Add kobj_sysfs_ops to replace subsys_sysfs_ops. There is no
need for special kset operations, we want to be able to use
simple attribute operations at any kobject, not only ksets.

The whole concept of any default sysfs attribute operations
will go away with the upcoming removal of subsys_sysfs_ops.

Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
16 years agokset: convert struct bus_device->drivers to use kset_create
Greg Kroah-Hartman [Thu, 1 Nov 2007 20:31:26 +0000 (13:31 -0700)]
kset: convert struct bus_device->drivers to use kset_create

Dynamically create the kset instead of declaring it statically.

Having 3 static kobjects in one structure is not only foolish, but ripe
for nasty race conditions if handled improperly.  We also rename the
field to catch any potential users of it (not that there should be
outside of the driver core...)

Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
16 years agokset: convert struct bus_device->devices to use kset_create
Greg Kroah-Hartman [Thu, 1 Nov 2007 20:31:26 +0000 (13:31 -0700)]
kset: convert struct bus_device->devices to use kset_create

Dynamically create the kset instead of declaring it statically.

Having 3 static kobjects in one structure is not only foolish, but ripe
for nasty race conditions if handled improperly.  We also rename the
field to catch any potential users of it (not that there should be
outside of the driver core...)

Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
16 years agokset: convert /sys/power to use kset_create
Greg Kroah-Hartman [Thu, 1 Nov 2007 17:39:50 +0000 (10:39 -0700)]
kset: convert /sys/power to use kset_create

Dynamically create the kset instead of declaring it statically.  We also
rename power_subsys to power_kset to catch all users of the variable and
we properly export it so that people don't have to guess that it really
is present in the system.

The pseries code is wierd, why is it createing /sys/power if CONFIG_PM
is disabled?  Oh well, stupid big boxes ignoring config options...

Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
16 years agokset: convert /sys/module to use kset_create
Greg Kroah-Hartman [Thu, 1 Nov 2007 17:39:50 +0000 (10:39 -0700)]
kset: convert /sys/module to use kset_create

Dynamically create the kset instead of declaring it statically.  We also
rename module_subsys to module_kset to catch all users of the variable.

Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
16 years agokset: move /sys/slab to /sys/kernel/slab
Greg Kroah-Hartman [Thu, 1 Nov 2007 15:29:06 +0000 (09:29 -0600)]
kset: move /sys/slab to /sys/kernel/slab

/sys/kernel is where these things should go.
Also updated the documentation and tool that used this directory.

Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
16 years agokset: convert slub to use kset_create
Greg Kroah-Hartman [Thu, 1 Nov 2007 15:29:06 +0000 (09:29 -0600)]
kset: convert slub to use kset_create

Dynamically create the kset instead of declaring it statically.

Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
16 years agokset: convert /sys/devices/system to use kset_create
Greg Kroah-Hartman [Thu, 1 Nov 2007 15:29:06 +0000 (09:29 -0600)]
kset: convert /sys/devices/system to use kset_create

Dynamically create the kset instead of declaring it statically.

Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
16 years agokobject: convert s390 hypervisor to use kobject_create
Greg Kroah-Hartman [Thu, 1 Nov 2007 15:29:06 +0000 (09:29 -0600)]
kobject: convert s390 hypervisor to use kobject_create

We don't need a kset here, a simple kobject will do just fine, so
dynamically create the kobject and use it.

Thanks to Cornelia for the build fix.

Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Cc: Michael Holzheu <holzheu@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
16 years agokobject: convert /sys/hypervisor to use kobject_create
Greg Kroah-Hartman [Thu, 1 Nov 2007 15:29:06 +0000 (09:29 -0600)]
kobject: convert /sys/hypervisor to use kobject_create

We don't need a kset here, a simple kobject will do just fine, so
dynamically create the kobject and use it.

We also rename hypervisor_subsys to hypervisor_kset to catch all users
of the variable.

Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
16 years agokset: convert /sys/devices to use kset_create
Greg Kroah-Hartman [Thu, 1 Nov 2007 15:29:06 +0000 (09:29 -0600)]
kset: convert /sys/devices to use kset_create

Dynamically create the kset instead of declaring it statically.  We also
rename devices_subsys to devices_kset to catch all users of the
variable.

Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
16 years agokset: convert drivers/base/firmware.c to use kset_create
Greg Kroah-Hartman [Tue, 30 Oct 2007 04:22:26 +0000 (23:22 -0500)]
kset: convert drivers/base/firmware.c to use kset_create

Dynamically create the kset instead of declaring it statically.

Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
16 years agokset: convert drivers/base/class.c to use kset_create
Greg Kroah-Hartman [Tue, 30 Oct 2007 04:22:26 +0000 (23:22 -0500)]
kset: convert drivers/base/class.c to use kset_create

Dynamically create the kset instead of declaring it statically.

The class_obj subsystem is not yet converted as it is more complex and
should be going away soon with the removal of class_device from the
kernel tree.

Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
16 years agokset: convert drivers/base/bus.c to use kset_create
Greg Kroah-Hartman [Tue, 30 Oct 2007 04:22:26 +0000 (23:22 -0500)]
kset: convert drivers/base/bus.c to use kset_create

Dynamically create the kset instead of declaring it statically.

Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
16 years agokset: convert kernel_subsys to use kset_create
Greg Kroah-Hartman [Mon, 29 Oct 2007 19:13:17 +0000 (20:13 +0100)]
kset: convert kernel_subsys to use kset_create

Dynamically create the kset instead of declaring it statically.  We also
rename kernel_subsys to kernel_kset to catch all users of this symbol
with a build error instead of an easy-to-ignore build warning.

Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
16 years agokset: remove decl_subsys_name
Greg Kroah-Hartman [Tue, 30 Oct 2007 04:22:26 +0000 (23:22 -0500)]
kset: remove decl_subsys_name

The last user of this macro (pci hotplug core) is now switched over to
using a dynamic kset, so this macro is no longer needed at all.

Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Cc: Kristen Carlson Accardi <kristen.c.accardi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
16 years agokset: convert pci hotplug to use kset_create_and_add
Greg Kroah-Hartman [Tue, 30 Oct 2007 04:22:26 +0000 (23:22 -0500)]
kset: convert pci hotplug to use kset_create_and_add

This also renames pci_hotplug_slots_subsys to pcis_hotplug_slots_kset
catch all current users with a build error instead of a build warning
which can easily be missed.

Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Cc: Kristen Carlson Accardi <kristen.c.accardi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
16 years agokset: convert dlm to use kset_create
Greg Kroah-Hartman [Mon, 29 Oct 2007 19:13:17 +0000 (20:13 +0100)]
kset: convert dlm to use kset_create

Dynamically create the kset instead of declaring it statically.

Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Cc: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
16 years agokset: convert gfs2 dlm to use kset_create
Greg Kroah-Hartman [Mon, 29 Oct 2007 19:13:17 +0000 (20:13 +0100)]
kset: convert gfs2 dlm to use kset_create

Dynamically create the kset instead of declaring it statically.

Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Cc: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
16 years agokset: convert gfs2 to use kset_create
Greg Kroah-Hartman [Mon, 29 Oct 2007 19:13:17 +0000 (20:13 +0100)]
kset: convert gfs2 to use kset_create

Dynamically create the kset instead of declaring it statically.

Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Cc: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
16 years agokobject: convert main fs kobject to use kobject_create
Greg Kroah-Hartman [Mon, 29 Oct 2007 20:17:23 +0000 (14:17 -0600)]
kobject: convert main fs kobject to use kobject_create

This also renames fs_subsys to fs_kobj to catch all current users with a
build error instead of a build warning which can easily be missed.

Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
16 years agokset: convert ecryptfs to use kset_create
Greg Kroah-Hartman [Mon, 29 Oct 2007 19:13:17 +0000 (20:13 +0100)]
kset: convert ecryptfs to use kset_create

Dynamically create the kset instead of declaring it statically.

Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Cc: Mike Halcrow <mhalcrow@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Phillip Hellewell <phillip@hellewell.homeip.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
16 years agokobject: convert configfs to use kobject_create
Greg Kroah-Hartman [Mon, 29 Oct 2007 19:13:17 +0000 (20:13 +0100)]
kobject: convert configfs to use kobject_create

We don't need a kset here, a simple kobject will do just fine, so
dynamically create the kobject and use it.

Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Joel Becker <joel.becker@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
16 years agokobject: convert debugfs to use kobject_create
Greg Kroah-Hartman [Mon, 29 Oct 2007 19:13:17 +0000 (20:13 +0100)]
kobject: convert debugfs to use kobject_create

We don't need a kset here, a simple kobject will do just fine, so
dynamically create the kobject and use it.

Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
16 years agokobject: convert securityfs to use kobject_create
Greg Kroah-Hartman [Mon, 29 Oct 2007 19:13:17 +0000 (20:13 +0100)]
kobject: convert securityfs to use kobject_create

We don't need a kset here, a simple kobject will do just fine, so
dynamically create the kobject and use it.

Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Acked-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
16 years agokobject: convert fuse to use kobject_create
Greg Kroah-Hartman [Mon, 29 Oct 2007 19:13:17 +0000 (20:13 +0100)]
kobject: convert fuse to use kobject_create

We don't need a kset here, a simple kobject will do just fine, so
dynamically create the kobject and use it.

Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Cc: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
16 years agokobject: get rid of kobject_kset_add_dir
Greg Kroah-Hartman [Tue, 6 Nov 2007 06:24:43 +0000 (22:24 -0800)]
kobject: get rid of kobject_kset_add_dir

kobject_kset_add_dir is only called in one place so remove it and use
kobject_create() instead.

Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
16 years agokobject: get rid of kobject_add_dir
Greg Kroah-Hartman [Tue, 6 Nov 2007 06:24:43 +0000 (22:24 -0800)]
kobject: get rid of kobject_add_dir

kobject_create_and_add is the same as kobject_add_dir, so drop
kobject_add_dir.

Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
16 years agokobject: add kobject_create_and_add function
Greg Kroah-Hartman [Mon, 5 Nov 2007 21:16:15 +0000 (13:16 -0800)]
kobject: add kobject_create_and_add function

This lets users create dynamic kobjects much easier.

Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
16 years agokset: add kset_create_and_add function
Greg Kroah-Hartman [Thu, 27 Sep 2007 21:48:53 +0000 (14:48 -0700)]
kset: add kset_create_and_add function

Now ksets can be dynamically created on the fly, no static definitions
are required.  Thanks to Miklos for hints on how to make this work
better for the callers.

And thanks to Kay for finding some stupid bugs in my original version
and pointing out that we need to handle the fact that kobject's can have
a kset as a parent and to handle that properly in kobject_add().

Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Cc: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
16 years agokobject: remove kobj_set_kset_s as no one is using it anymore
Greg Kroah-Hartman [Tue, 16 Oct 2007 16:11:44 +0000 (10:11 -0600)]
kobject: remove kobj_set_kset_s as no one is using it anymore

What a confusing name for a macro...

Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
16 years agokobject: remove struct kobj_type from struct kset
Greg Kroah-Hartman [Tue, 16 Oct 2007 16:11:44 +0000 (10:11 -0600)]
kobject: remove struct kobj_type from struct kset

We don't need a "default" ktype for a kset.  We should set this
explicitly every time for each kset.  This change is needed so that we
can make ksets dynamic, and cleans up one of the odd, undocumented
assumption that the kset/kobject/ktype model has.

This patch is based on a lot of help from Kay Sievers.

Nasty bug in the block code was found by Dave Young
<hidave.darkstar@gmail.com>

Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Cc: Dave Young <hidave.darkstar@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
16 years agokobject: add kobject_init_and_add function
Greg Kroah-Hartman [Tue, 4 Dec 2007 05:31:08 +0000 (21:31 -0800)]
kobject: add kobject_init_and_add function

Also add a kobject_init_and_add function which bundles up what a lot of
the current callers want to do all at once, and it properly handles the
memory usages, unlike kobject_register();

Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
16 years agokobject: add kobject_add_ng function
Greg Kroah-Hartman [Tue, 4 Dec 2007 05:31:08 +0000 (21:31 -0800)]
kobject: add kobject_add_ng function

This is what the kobject_add function is going to become.

Add this to the kernel and then we can convert the tree over to use it.

Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
16 years agokobject: add kobject_init_ng function
Greg Kroah-Hartman [Tue, 4 Dec 2007 05:31:08 +0000 (21:31 -0800)]
kobject: add kobject_init_ng function

This is what the kobject_init function is going to become.

Add this to the kernel and then we can convert the tree over to use it.

Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
16 years agokobject: make kobject_cleanup be static
Greg Kroah-Hartman [Tue, 4 Dec 2007 05:31:08 +0000 (21:31 -0800)]
kobject: make kobject_cleanup be static

No one except the kobject core calls it so make the function static.

Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
16 years agokobject: fix up kobject_set_name to use kvasprintf
Greg Kroah-Hartman [Thu, 29 Nov 2007 23:32:47 +0000 (18:32 -0500)]
kobject: fix up kobject_set_name to use kvasprintf

Kay pointed out that kobject_set_name was being very stupid, doing two
allocations for every call, when it should just be using the kernel
function kvasprintf() instead.

This change adds the internal kobject_set_name_vargs() function, which
other follow-on patches will be using.

Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
16 years agokobject: convert icom to use kref, not kobject
Greg Kroah-Hartman [Tue, 4 Dec 2007 04:16:20 +0000 (21:16 -0700)]
kobject: convert icom to use kref, not kobject

The IBM icom serial driver is using a kobject only for reference
counting, nothing else.  So switch it to use a kref instead, which is
all that is needed, and is much smaller.

Cc: Anton Blanchard <anton@au.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@au.ibm.com>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Ryan S. Arnold <rsa@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
16 years agokobject: convert hvcs to use kref, not kobject
Greg Kroah-Hartman [Wed, 28 Nov 2007 18:46:22 +0000 (10:46 -0800)]
kobject: convert hvcs to use kref, not kobject

hvcs is using a kobject only for reference counting, nothing else.  So
switch it to use a kref instead, which is all that is needed, and is
much smaller.

Cc: Anton Blanchard <anton@au.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@au.ibm.com>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Ryan S. Arnold <rsa@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
16 years agokobject: convert hvc_console to use kref, not kobject
Greg Kroah-Hartman [Wed, 28 Nov 2007 18:46:22 +0000 (10:46 -0800)]
kobject: convert hvc_console to use kref, not kobject

hvc_console is using a kobject only for reference counting, nothing
else.  So switch it to use a kref instead, which is all that is needed,
and is much smaller.

Cc: Anton Blanchard <anton@au.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@au.ibm.com>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Ryan S. Arnold <rsa@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
16 years agokobject: convert ibmasm to use kref, not kobject
Greg Kroah-Hartman [Tue, 4 Dec 2007 04:16:20 +0000 (21:16 -0700)]
kobject: convert ibmasm to use kref, not kobject

The IBM asm driver is using a kobject only for reference counting,
nothing else.  So switch it to use a kref instead, which is all that is
needed, and is much smaller.

Cc: Max Asböck <amax@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
16 years agosysfs: remove SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED
Jiri Slaby [Wed, 21 Nov 2007 22:55:19 +0000 (14:55 -0800)]
sysfs: remove SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED

SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED is deprecated, use DEFINE_SPINLOCK instead

Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Tejun Heo <teheo@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
16 years agosysfs: create optimal relative symlink targets
Kay Sievers [Thu, 1 Nov 2007 19:20:52 +0000 (20:20 +0100)]
sysfs: create optimal relative symlink targets

Instead of walking from the source down to the root of sysfs, and back
to the target, we stop at the first directory the source and the target
share.

This link:
  /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.7/usb1/1-0:1.0/ep_81

pointed to:
  ../../../../../devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.0/usb2/2-0:1.0/usb_endpoint/usbdev2.1_ep81

now it just points to:
  usb_endpoint/usbdev1.1_ep81

Thanks to Denis Cheng for bringing this up, and sending the initial patch.

CC: Denis Cheng <crquan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
16 years agodriver core: Make the dev_*() family of macros in device.h complete
Emil Medve [Tue, 30 Oct 2007 19:37:14 +0000 (14:37 -0500)]
driver core: Make the dev_*() family of macros in device.h complete

Removed duplicates defined elsewhere

Signed-off-by: Emil Medve <Emilian.Medve@Freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
16 years agoecryptfs: clean up attribute mess
Greg Kroah-Hartman [Mon, 15 Oct 2007 22:01:24 +0000 (15:01 -0700)]
ecryptfs: clean up attribute mess

It isn't that hard to add simple kset attributes, so don't go through
all the gyrations of creating your own object type and show and store
functions.  Just use the functions that are already present.  This makes
things much simpler.

Note, the version_str string violates the "one value per file" rule for
sysfs.  I suggest changing this now (individual files per type supported
is one suggested way.)

Cc: Michael A. Halcrow <mahalcro@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Michael C. Thompson <mcthomps@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Tyler Hicks <tyhicks@ou.edu>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
16 years agocosa: Convert from class_device to device for cosa sync driver
Tony Jones [Tue, 25 Sep 2007 00:03:03 +0000 (02:03 +0200)]
cosa: Convert from class_device to device for cosa sync driver

struct class_device is going away, this converts the code to use struct
device instead.

Signed-off-by: Tony Jones <tonyj@suse.de>
Cc: Jan "Yenya" Kasprzak <kas@fi.muni.cz>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
16 years agotifm: Convert from class_device to device for TI flash media
Tony Jones [Tue, 25 Sep 2007 00:03:03 +0000 (02:03 +0200)]
tifm: Convert from class_device to device for TI flash media

Signed-off-by: Tony Jones <tonyj@suse.de>
Cc: Alex Dubov <oakad@yahoo.com>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
16 years agopktcdvd: Convert from class_device to device for block/pktcdvd
Tony Jones [Tue, 25 Sep 2007 00:03:03 +0000 (02:03 +0200)]
pktcdvd: Convert from class_device to device for block/pktcdvd

struct class_device is going away, this converts the code to use struct
device instead.

Signed-off-by: Tony Jones <tonyj@suse.de>
Cc: Peter Osterlund <petero2@telia.com>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
16 years agoparide: Convert from class_device to device for block/paride
Tony Jones [Tue, 25 Sep 2007 00:03:03 +0000 (02:03 +0200)]
paride: Convert from class_device to device for block/paride

struct class_device is going away, this converts the code to use struct
device instead.

Signed-off-by: Tony Jones <tonyj@suse.de>
Cc: Tim Waugh <tim@cyberelk.net>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>