sysfs is now completely out of driver/module lifetime game. After
deletion, a sysfs node doesn't access anything outside sysfs proper,
so there's no reason to hold onto the attribute owners. Note that
often the wrong modules were accounted for as owners leading to
accessing removed modules.
This patch kills now unnecessary attribute->owner. Note that with
this change, userland holding a sysfs node does not prevent the
backing module from being unloaded.
For more info regarding lifetime rule cleanup, please read the
following message.
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/510293
(tweaked by Greg to not delete the field just yet, to make it easier to
merge things properly.)
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Cc: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
We need to work on cleaning up the relationship between kobjects, ksets and
ktypes. The removal of 'struct subsystem' is the first step of this,
especially as it is not really needed at all.
Thanks to Kay for fixing the bugs in this patch.
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Add a helper to asm/pdc.h to translate OS_ID values to strings
and use it in the pdc_stable driver.
Signed-off-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@parisc-linux.org>
We were assigned an OS_ID of 0x0006. Consistently use OS_ID_LINUX
instead of using the magic number. Also update the OS_ID_ defines in
asm/pdc.h to reflect this.
Signed-off-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@parisc-linux.org>
pdc_stable v0.30:
This patch introduces 3 more files to the /sys/firmware/stable tree:
- diagnostic, which contains a cryptic hex string
- osdep1, a 16 bytes os-dependent storage area always available
- osdep2, another os-dependent storage area which existence/size depends
on hversion.
This patch also adds code to setup the "Linux" signature in stable
storage. That is to say that starting with this patch, the kernel will
now sign its OSID (0x0006, thx LaMont) in Stable Storage upon boot,
whether pdc_stable is enabled or not.
Signed-off-by: Thibaut VARENE <varenet@parisc-linux.org>
Signed-off-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@parisc-linux.org>
pdc_stable v0.22, changes since v0.10:
o renamed root subsystem from 'pdc' to 'stable'
o split 'info' into several files, one per PDC field
o implemented 'autoboot' and 'autosearch' write calls to toggle
these flags
o grant read permission to all users on "safe" files
o more code cleanup (removed duplicate code)
o avoid bad stable storage clobbering by write locking critical sections
o print consistent data as well
o SMP cleanups
Signed-off-by: Thibaut VARENE <varenet@parisc-linux.org>
Signed-off-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@parisc-linux.org>
- Move capable() from sched.h to capability.h;
- Use <linux/capability.h> where capable() is used
(in include/, block/, ipc/, kernel/, a few drivers/,
mm/, security/, & sound/;
many more drivers/ to go)
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
pdc_stable 0.10:
As mentioned on LKML, pdc_stable wasn't checky enough on the return
values of some calls. This patch makes it more robust to errors when
registering objects in sysfs.
Signed-off-by: Thibaut VARENE <varenet@parisc-linux.org>
Signed-off-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@parisc-linux.org>
Flag a whole bunch of things as __read_mostly on parisc. Also flag a few
branches as unlikely() and cleanup a bit of code.
Signed-off-by: Helge Deller <deller@parisc-linux.org>
Signed-off-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@parisc-linux.org>
Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
infrastructure for it.
Let it rip!
