Well, first of all, I don't want to change so many files either.
What I do:
Adding a new parameter "struct bin_attribute *" in the
.read/.write methods for the sysfs binary attributes.
In fact, only the four lines change in fs/sysfs/bin.c and
include/linux/sysfs.h do the real work.
But I have to update all the files that use binary attributes
to make them compatible with the new .read and .write methods.
I'm not sure if I missed any. :(
Why I do this:
For a sysfs attribute, we can get a pointer pointing to the
struct attribute in the .show/.store method,
while we can't do this for the binary attributes.
I don't know why this is different, but this does make it not
so handy to use the binary attributes as the regular ones.
So I think this patch is reasonable. :)
Who benefits from it:
The patch that exposes ACPI tables in sysfs
requires such an improvement.
All the table binary attributes share the same .read method.
Parameter "struct bin_attribute *" is used to get
the table signature and instance number which are used to
distinguish different ACPI table binary attributes.
Without this parameter, we need to offer different .read methods
for different ACPI table binary attributes.
This is impossible as there are various ACPI tables on different
platforms, and we don't know what they are until they are loaded.
Signed-off-by: Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
devt_attr and uevent_attr are either allocated dynamically with or
embedded in device and class_device as they needed their owner field
set to the module implementing the driver. Now that sysfs implements
immediate disconnect and owner field removed from struct attribute,
there is no reason to do this. Remove these attributes from
[class_]device and use static attribute structures instead.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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>
This converts code of the form
if ((error = some_func()))
goto fixup;
to
error = some_func();
if (error)
goto fixup;
Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
The checks if the device's parent is in the right state done in
drivers/base/power/suspend.c and drivers/base/power/resume.c serve no particular
purpose, since if the parent is in a wrong power state, the device's suspend or
resume callbacks are supposed to return an error anyway. Moreover, they are
also useless from the sanity checking point of view, because they rely on the
code being checked to set dev->parent->power.power_state.event appropriately,
which need not happen if that code is buggy. For these reasons they can be
removed.
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Acked-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
The suspend routines should be called for every device during a system sleep
transition, regardless of the device's state, so that drivers can regard these
method calls as notifications that the system is about to go to sleep, rather
than as directives to put their devices into the 'off' state.
This is documented in Documentation/power/devices.txt and is already done in
the core resume code, so it seems reasonable to make the core suspend code
behave accordingly.
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
The prev_state member of struct dev_pm_info (defined in include/linux/pm.h) is
only used during a resume to check if the device's state before the suspend was
'off', in which case the device is not resumed. However, in such cases the
decision whether or not to resume the device should be made on the driver level
and the resume callbacks from the device's bus and class should be executed
anyway (the may be needed for some things other than just powering on the
device).
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Every file should include the headers containing the prototypes for
it's global functions.
Since the GNU C compiler is now able to detect that the function
prototype of devres_release_all() in the header and the actual function
disagree regarding the return value, this patch also fixes this bug.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
attribute_container.c uses DEFINE_MUTEX, so while
linux/mutex.h seems to be pulled in indirectly
by one of the headers it includes, the right thing
is to include linux/mutex.h directly.
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@dev.mellanox.co.il>
Reduce code duplication in drivers/base/suspend.c by introducing a separate
function for printing diagnostic messages.
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
The pm_parent member of struct dev_pm_info (defined in include/linux/pm.h) is
only used to check if the device's parent is in the right state while the
device is being suspended or resumed. However, this can be done just as well
with the help of the parent pointer in struct device, so pm_parent can be
removed along with some code that handles it.
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Acked-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
The Power Management code uses semaphores as mutexes. Use the mutex API
instead of the (binary) semaphores.
Signed-off-by: Matthias Kaehlcke <matthias.kaehlcke@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
The sysdev code use a semaphore as mutex. Use the mutex API instead of the
(binary) semaphore.
Signed-off-by: Matthias Kaehlcke <matthias.kaehlcke@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
We get uevents for a bus/class going away, but not one registering.
Add the missing uevent in kset_register(), which will send an
event for a new bus/class. Suppress all unwanted uevents for bus
subdirectories like /bus/*/devices/, /bus/*/drivers/.
Now we get for module usbcore:
add /module/usbcore (module)
add /bus/usb (bus)
add /class/usb_host (class)
add /bus/usb/drivers/hub (drivers)
add /bus/usb/drivers/usb (drivers)
remove /bus/usb/drivers/usb (drivers)
remove /bus/usb/drivers/hub (drivers)
remove /class/usb_host (class)
remove /bus/usb (bus)
remove /module/usbcore (module)
instead of:
add /module/usbcore (module)
add /bus/usb/drivers/hub (drivers)
add /bus/usb/drivers/usb (drivers)
remove /bus/usb/drivers/usb (drivers)
remove /bus/usb/drivers/hub (drivers)
remove /class/usb_host (class)
remove /bus/usb/drivers (bus)
remove /bus/usb/devices (bus)
remove /bus/usb (bus)
remove /module/usbcore (module)
Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Manuel Estrada Sainz passed away on May 9th 2004, his email account got
deactivated. He was in charge of the firmware_class code, and still got
CC'ed in recent discussions about it.
Signed-off-by: Markus Rechberger <markus.rechberger@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
CC drivers/base/dd.o
drivers/base/dd.c:211: warning: =E2=80=98device_probe_drivers=E2=80=99 defi=
ned but not used
Looks like the following is dead.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Class-devices created by "struct class_device" are going to be replaced
by "struct device". Keep the deprecated PHYSDEV* variables for the already
"deprecated" struct class_device" devices.
Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
First thing mm.h does is including sched.h solely for can_do_mlock() inline
function which has "current" dereference inside. By dealing with can_do_mlock()
mm.h can be detached from sched.h which is good. See below, why.
This patch
a) removes unconditional inclusion of sched.h from mm.h
b) makes can_do_mlock() normal function in mm/mlock.c
c) exports can_do_mlock() to not break compilation
d) adds sched.h inclusions back to files that were getting it indirectly.
e) adds less bloated headers to some files (asm/signal.h, jiffies.h) that were
getting them indirectly
Net result is:
a) mm.h users would get less code to open, read, preprocess, parse, ... if
they don't need sched.h
b) sched.h stops being dependency for significant number of files:
on x86_64 allmodconfig touching sched.h results in recompile of 4083 files,
after patch it's only 3744 (-8.3%).
Cross-compile tested on
all arm defconfigs, all mips defconfigs, all powerpc defconfigs,
alpha alpha-up
arm
i386 i386-up i386-defconfig i386-allnoconfig
ia64 ia64-up
m68k
mips
parisc parisc-up
powerpc powerpc-up
s390 s390-up
sparc sparc-up
sparc64 sparc64-up
um-x86_64
x86_64 x86_64-up x86_64-defconfig x86_64-allnoconfig
as well as my two usual configs.
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bunk/trivial: (25 commits)
sound: convert "sound" subdirectory to UTF-8
MAINTAINERS: Add cxacru website/mailing list
include files: convert "include" subdirectory to UTF-8
general: convert "kernel" subdirectory to UTF-8
documentation: convert the Documentation directory to UTF-8
Convert the toplevel files CREDITS and MAINTAINERS to UTF-8.
remove broken URLs from net drivers' output
Magic number prefix consistency change to Documentation/magic-number.txt
trivial: s/i_sem /i_mutex/
fix file specification in comments
drivers/base/platform.c: fix small typo in doc
misc doc and kconfig typos
Remove obsolete fat_cvf help text
Fix occurrences of "the the "
Fix minor typoes in kernel/module.c
Kconfig: Remove reference to external mqueue library
Kconfig: A couple of grammatical fixes in arch/i386/Kconfig
Correct comments in genrtc.c to refer to correct /proc file.
Fix more "deprecated" spellos.
Fix "deprecated" typoes.
...
Fix trivial comment conflict in kernel/relay.c.
Since nonboot CPUs are now disabled after tasks and devices have been
frozen and the CPU hotplug infrastructure is used for this purpose, we need
special CPU hotplug notifications that will help the CPU-hotplug-aware
subsystems distinguish normal CPU hotplug events from CPU hotplug events
related to a system-wide suspend or resume operation in progress. This
patch introduces such notifications and causes them to be used during
suspend and resume transitions. It also changes all of the
CPU-hotplug-aware subsystems to take these notifications into consideration
(for now they are handled in the same way as the corresponding "normal"
ones).
[oleg@tv-sign.ru: cleanups]
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Cc: Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Make devres.c ready for adding to DocBook.
Add devres.c to DocBook.
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
We've had various reports of some legacy "probe the hardware" style
platform drivers having nasty problems with hotplug support.
The core issue is that those legacy drivers don't fully conform to the
driver model. They assume a role that should be the responsibility of
infrastructure code: creating device nodes.
The "modprobe" step in hotplugging relies on drivers to have split those
roles into different modules. The lack of this split causes the problems.
When a driver creates nodes for devices that don't exist (sending a hotplug
event), then exits (aborting one modprobe) before the "modprobe $MODALIAS"
step completes (by failing, since it's in the middle of a modprobe), the
result can be an endless loop of modprobe invocations ... badness.
This fix uses the newish per-device flag controlling issuance of "add"
events. (A previous version of this patch used a per-device "driver can
hotplug" flag, which only scrubbed $MODALIAS from the environment rather
than suppressing the entire hotplug event.) It also shrinks that flag to
one bit, saving a word in "struct device".
So the net of this patch is removing some nasty failures with legacy
drivers, while retaining hotplug capability for the majority of platform
drivers.
Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
Cc: Andres Salomon <dilinger@debian.org>
Cc: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Architectures that don't support DMA can say so by adding a config NO_DMA
to their Kconfig file. This will prevent compilation of some dma specific
driver code. Also dma-mapping-broken.h isn't needed anymore on at least
s390. This avoids compilation and linking of otherwise dead/broken code.
Other architectures that include dma-mapping-broken.h are arm26, h8300,
m68k, m68knommu and v850. If these could be converted as well we could get
rid of the header file.
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
"John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@parisc-linux.org>
Cc: <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: <spyro@f2s.com>
Cc: <uclinux-v850@lsi.nec.co.jp>
Cc: <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-2.6:
remove "struct subsystem" as it is no longer needed
sysfs: printk format warning
DOC: Fix wrong identifier name in Documentation/driver-model/devres.txt
platform: reorder platform_device_del
Driver core: fix show_uevent from taking up way too much stack
This patch removes the PCI_MULTITHREAD_PROBE option that had already
been marked as broken.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
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>
In platform_device_del(), we currently delete the device resources
first, then we delete the device itself. This causes a (minor) bug to
occur when one unregisters a platform device before unregistering its
platform driver, and the driver is requesting (in .probe()) and
releasing (in .remove()) a resource of the device. The device
resources are already gone by the time the driver gets the chance to
release the resources it had been requesting, causing an error like:
Trying to free nonexistent resource <0000000000000295-0000000000000296>
If the platform driver is unregistered first, the problem doesn't
occur, as the driver will have the opportunity to release the
resources it had requested before the device resources themselves are
released. It's a bit odd that unregistering the driver first or the
device first doesn't lead to the same result.
So I believe that we should delete the device first in
platform_device_del(). I've searched the git history and found that it
used to be the case before 2.6.8, but was changed here:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/old-2.6-bkcvs.git;a=commitdiff;h=96ef7b3689936ee1e64b711511342026a8ce459c
> 2004/07/14 16:09:44-07:00 dtor_core
> [PATCH] Driver core: Fix OOPS in device_platform_unregister
>
> Driver core: platform_device_unregister should release resources first
> and only then call device_unregister, otherwise if there
> are no more references to the device it will be freed and
> the fucntion will try to access freed memory.
However we now have an explicit call to put_device() at the end of
platform_device_unregister() so I guess the original problem no longer
exists and it is safe to revert that change.
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Declaring an array of PAGE_SIZE does bad things for people running with
4k stacks...
Thanks to Tilman Schmidt for tracking this down.
Cc: Tilman Schmidt <tilman@imap.cc>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
use mutex instead of binary semaphore in
drivers/base/attribute_container.c
Signed-off-by: Matthias Kaehlcke <matthias.kaehlcke@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
This defines a platform hook to enable/disable a device as a wakeup event
source. It's initially for use with ACPI, but more generally it could be used
whenever enable_irq_wake()/disable_irq_wake() don't suffice.
The hook is called -- if available -- inside pci_enable_wake(); and the
semantics of that call are enhanced so that support for PCI PME# is no longer
needed. It can now work for devices with "legacy PCI PM", when platform
support allows it. (That support would use some board-specific signal for for
the same purpose as PME#.)
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: Make it compile with CONFIG_PM=n]
Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com>
Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
This patch (as896b) fixes an oversight in the design of
device_schedule_callback(). It is necessary to acquire a reference to the
module owning the callback routine, to prevent the module from being
unloaded before the callback can run.
Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Cc: Satyam Sharma <satyam.sharma@gmail.com>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
the DMA pool handler uses a semaphore as mutex. use the mutex API
instead of the (binary) semaphore
Signed-off-by: Matthias Kaehlcke <matthias.kaehlcke@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
In the future we will allow the uevent type to be written to the uevent
file to trigger the different types of uevents. But for now, as we only
support the ADD event, warn if userspace tries to write anything else to
this file.
Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
This allows sysfs to show the environment variables that are available
if the uevent happens. This lets userspace not have to cache all of
this information as the kernel already knows it.
Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
This lock is never used by the rest of the driver core, so the fact that
we are grabbing it here means it isn't correct...
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Driver core: add suspend() and resume() to struct device_type
In cases when there are devices of different types in the same class
we can't use class's implementation of suspend and resume methods and
we need to add them to struct device_type instead.
Also fix error handling in resume code (we should not try to call
class's resume method iof bus's resume method for the device failed.
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Use uevent_suppress instead of returning an error code in
firmware_uevent(). Get rid of the now unneeded FW_STATUS_READY
and FW_STATUS_READY_NOHOTPLUG.
Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Suppress uevents for devices if uevent_suppress is set via
dev_uevent_filter(). This makes the driver core suppress all device
uevents, not just the add event in device_add().
Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
The completion in the driver release path is due to ancient history in
the _very_ early 2.5 days when we were not tracking the module reference
count of attributes. It is not needed at all and can be removed.
Note, we now have an empty release function for the driver structure.
This is due to the fact that drivers are statically allocated in the
system at this point in time, something which I want to change in the
future. But remember, drivers are really code, which is reference
counted by the module, unlike devices, which are data and _must_ be
reference counted properly in order to work correctly.
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Don't fail bus_attach_device() if the device cannot be bound.
If dev->driver has been specified, reset it to NULL if device_bind_driver()
failed and add the device as an unbound device. As a result,
bus_attach_device() now cannot fail, and we can remove some checking from
device_add().
Also remove an unneeded check in bus_rescan_devices_helper().
Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Make multithreaded probing work per subsystem instead of per driver.
It doesn't make much sense to probe the same device for multiple drivers in
parallel (after all, only one driver can bind to the device). Instead, create
a probing thread for each device that probes the drivers one after another.
Also make the decision to use multi-threaded probe per bus instead of per
device and adapt the pci code.
Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
If "name" of a device_type is specified, the uevent will
contain the device_type name in the DEVTYPE variable.
This helps userspace to distingiush between different types
of devices, belonging to the same subsystem.
Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Driver core: use attribute groups in struct device_type
Attribute groups are more flexible than attribute lists
(an attribute list can be represented by anonymous group)
so switch struct device_type to use them.
Also rework attribute creation for devices so that they all
cleaned up properly in case of errors.
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
We get two per-bus sysfs files:
ls-l /sys/subsystem/usb
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 2007-02-16 16:42 devices
drwxr-xr-x 7 root root 0 2007-02-16 14:55 drivers
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4096 2007-02-16 16:42 drivers_autoprobe
--w------- 1 root root 4096 2007-02-16 16:42 drivers_probe
The flag "drivers_autoprobe" controls the behavior of the bus to bind
devices by default, or just initialize the device and leave it alone.
The command "drivers_probe" accepts a bus_id and the bus tries to bind a
driver to this device.
Systems who want to control the driver binding with udev, switch off the
bus initiated probing:
echo 0 > /sys/subsystem/usb/drivers_autoprobe
echo 0 > /sys/subsystem/pcmcia/drivers_autoprobe
...
and initiate the probing with udev rules like:
ACTION=="add", SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ATTR{subsystem/drivers_probe}="$kernel"
ACTION=="add", SUBSYSTEM=="pcmcia", ATTR{subsystem/drivers_probe}="$kernel"
...
Custom driver binding can happen in earlier rules by something like:
ACTION=="add", SUBSYSTEM=="usb", \
ATTRS{idVendor}=="1234", ATTRS{idProduct}=="5678" \
ATTR{subsystem/drivers/<custom-driver>/bind}="$kernel"
This is intended to solve the modprobe.conf mess with "install-rules", custom
bind/unbind-scripts and all the weird things people invented over the years.
It should also provide the functionality "libusual" was supposed to do.
With udev, one can just write a udev rule to drive all USB-disks at the
third port of USB-hub by the "ub" driver, and everything else by
usb-storage. One can also instruct udev to bind different wireless
drivers to identical cards - just selected by the pcmcia slot-number, and
whatever ...
To use the mentioned rules, it needs udev version 106, to be able to
write ATTR{}="$kernel" to sysfs files.
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
As the new-style class devices (as opposed to old-style struct
class_device) are becoming more widely used, I noticed that the
dev_printk-based functions are not working properly with these.
New-style class devices have no driver nor bus, almost by definition,
and as a result dev_driver_string(), which is used as the first
parameter of dev_printk, resolves to an empty string. This causes
entries like the following to show in my logs:
i2c-2: adapter [SMBus stub driver] registered
Notice the unaesthetical leading whitespace. In order to fix this
problem, I suggest that we extend dev_driver_string to deal with
new-style class devices:
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
- uses a kset in "struct class" to keep track of all directories
belonging to this class
- merges with the /sys/devices/virtual logic.
- removes the namespace-dir if the last member of that class
leaves the directory.
There may be locking or refcounting fixes left, I stopped when it seemed
to work with network and sound modules. :)
From: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
