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Greg Kroah-Hartman
37b0c02034 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>
2008-01-24 20:40:25 -08:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman
822a89ed1e 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>
2008-01-24 20:40:25 -08:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman
2fb9113b97 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>
2008-01-24 20:40:24 -08:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman
5c03c7ab88 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>
2008-01-24 20:40:24 -08:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman
f62ed9e33b 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>
2008-01-24 20:40:23 -08:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman
15f2f9b3a9 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>
2008-01-24 20:40:23 -08:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman
9e5f7f9abe 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>
2008-01-24 20:40:19 -08:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman
6dcec2511f 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>
2008-01-24 20:40:16 -08:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman
3d8995963d 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>
2008-01-24 20:40:16 -08:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman
aade4041aa 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>
2008-01-24 20:40:15 -08:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman
2d72fc00a1 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>
2008-01-24 20:40:15 -08:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman
881c6cfd7c 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>
2008-01-24 20:40:15 -08:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman
b0d78e5549 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>
2008-01-24 20:40:15 -08:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman
443dbf9007 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>
2008-01-24 20:40:15 -08:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman
59a548338a 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>
2008-01-24 20:40:14 -08:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman
43968d2f16 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>
2008-01-24 20:40:11 -08:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman
4ff6abff83 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>
2008-01-24 20:40:11 -08:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman
3514faca19 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>
2008-01-24 20:40:10 -08:00
Rafael J. Wysocki
775b64d2b6 PM: Acquire device locks on suspend
This patch reorganizes the way suspend and resume notifications are
sent to drivers.  The major changes are that now the PM core acquires
every device semaphore before calling the methods, and calls to
device_add() during suspends will fail, while calls to device_del()
during suspends will block.

It also provides a way to safely remove a suspended device with the
help of the PM core, by using the device_pm_schedule_removal() callback
introduced specifically for this purpose, and updates two drivers (msr
and cpuid) that need to use it.

Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-01-24 20:40:04 -08:00
Daniel Drake
dec13c1544 create /sys/.../power when CONFIG_PM is set
The CONFIG_SUSPEND changes in 2.6.23 caused a regression under certain
configuration conditions (SUSPEND=n, USB_AUTOSUSPEND=y) where all USB
device attributes in sysfs (idVendor, idProduct, ...) silently disappeared,
causing udev breakage and more.

The cause of this is that the /sys/.../power subdirectory is now only
created when CONFIG_PM_SLEEP is set, however, it should be created whenever
CONFIG_PM is set to handle the above situation.  The following patch fixes
the regression.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Drake <dsd@gentoo.org>
Acked-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Cc: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Cc: stable <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-11-28 13:53:53 -08:00
Adrian Bunk
87ae9afdca cleanup asm/scatterlist.h includes
Not architecture specific code should not #include <asm/scatterlist.h>.

This patch therefore either replaces them with
#include <linux/scatterlist.h> or simply removes them if they were
unused.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2007-11-02 08:47:06 +01:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman
d919fd433b Revert "Driver core: remove class_device_*_bin_file"
This reverts commit fcd239d3d5.

I messed up, ia64 still uses these files in the current tree, and now
can not build the pci code, which all ia64 boxes seem to require :)

This fixes that mistake.

Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-10-31 12:51:29 -07:00
Kay Sievers
60b8cabd8e Driver Core: fix bug in device_rename() for SYSFS_DEPRECATED=y
This should fix the sysfs warnings that renaming network devices is
causing to show up with CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED=y

The code just shouldn't run if class devices are real directories, it's
an update for the symlink in the class directory. Nobody noticed that as
long as the creation of sysfs files silently failed, and we both missed
it before the merge, because we don't run SYSFS_DEPRECATED=y.        

Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Cc: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Cc: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-10-30 21:52:33 -07:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman
fcd239d3d5 Driver core: remove class_device_*_bin_file
These functions are not used by anyone, so remove them from the tree.

The class_device code will be removed soon anyway, so no future users
will ever be possible.


Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-10-30 21:52:33 -07:00
Yasunori Goto
7b78d335ac memory hotplug: rearrange memory hotplug notifier
Current memory notifier has some defects yet.  (Fortunately, nothing uses
it.) This patch is to fix and rearrange for them.

  - Add information of start_pfn, nr_pages, and node id if node status is
    changes from/to memoryless node for callback functions.
    Callbacks can't do anything without those information.
  - Add notification going-online status.
    It is necessary for creating per node structure before the node's
    pages are available.
  - Move GOING_OFFLINE status notification after page isolation.
    It is good place for return memory like cache for callback,
    because returned page is not used again.
  - Make CANCEL events for rollingback when error occurs.
  - Delete MEM_MAPPING_INVALID notification. It will be not used.
  - Fix compile error of (un)register_memory_notifier().

Signed-off-by: Yasunori Goto <y-goto@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-22 08:13:17 -07:00
Stephen Hemminger
c80544dc0b sparse pointer use of zero as null
Get rid of sparse related warnings from places that use integer as NULL
pointer.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Cc: Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
Cc: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-18 14:37:31 -07:00
Akinobu Mita
9780e3e968 cpu hotplug: topology: remove topology_dev_map
By previous cpu hotplug notifier change, we don't need to track topology_dev
existence for each cpu by topology_dev_map.

Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
Cc: Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-18 14:37:21 -07:00
Rafael J. Wysocki
f059bca1c5 pm_trace displays the wrong time from the RTC
The way in which read_magic_time() displays the date read from the RTC is
apparently confusing to the users (cf.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=250238).  Make it
print dates in the standard way.

Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Acked-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-18 14:37:19 -07:00
Arjan van de Ven
d9aacccf45 make dmapool code use __set_current_state()
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@Linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-17 08:42:56 -07:00
Lee Schermerhorn
bde631a518 mm: add node states sysfs class attributeS
Add a per node state sysfs class attribute file to /sys/devices/system/node
to display node state masks.

E.g., on a 4-cell HP ia64 NUMA platform, we have 5 nodes: 4 representing
the actual hardware cells and one memory-only pseudo-node representing a
small amount [512MB] of "hardware interleaved" memory.  With this patch, in
/sys/devices/system/node we see:

#ls -1F /sys/devices/system/node
has_cpu
has_normal_memory
node0/
node1/
node2/
node3/
node4/
online
possible
#cat /sys/devices/system/node/possible
0-255
#cat /sys/devices/system/node/online
0-4
#cat /sys/devices/system/node/has_normal_memory
0-4
#cat /sys/devices/system/node/has_cpu
0-3

Signed-off-by: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-16 09:43:03 -07:00
Andy Whitcroft
540557b943 sparsemem: record when a section has a valid mem_map
We have flags to indicate whether a section actually has a valid mem_map
associated with it.  This is never set and we rely solely on the present bit
to indicate a section is valid.  By definition a section is not valid if it
has no mem_map and there is a window during init where the present bit is set
but there is no mem_map, during which pfn_valid() will return true
incorrectly.

Use the existing SECTION_HAS_MEM_MAP flag to indicate the presence of a valid
mem_map.  Switch valid_section{,_nr} and pfn_valid() to this bit.  Add a new
present_section{,_nr} and pfn_present() interfaces for those users who care to
know that a section is going to be valid.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-syle fixes]
Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-16 09:42:51 -07:00
Al Viro
9ec0fd4e37 more uevent fallout (drivers/base/memory.c)
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-14 08:53:33 -07:00
Alan Stern
cd59abfcc4 PM: merge device power-management source files
This patch (as993) merges the suspend.c and resume.c files in
drivers/base/power into main.c, making some public symbols private.

Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Acked-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-10-12 14:51:12 -07:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman
a1148fb03f Driver core: rename ktype_driver
This makes it a bit more sane when trying to figure out how to clean up
the ktype mess.

Based on a larger patch from Kay Sievers

Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-10-12 14:51:12 -07:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman
8f4afc410b Driver core: rename ktype_device
This makes it a bit more sane when trying to figure out how to clean up
the ktype mess.

Based on a larger patch from Kay Sievers

Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-10-12 14:51:12 -07:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman
adc56808f3 Driver core: rename ktype_class
This makes it a bit more sane when trying to figure out how to clean up
the ktype mess.

Based on a larger patch from Kay Sievers

Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-10-12 14:51:11 -07:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman
e4bc16621d driver core: remove subsystem_init()
There is only one user of it, and it is only a wrapper for kset_init().

Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-10-12 14:51:11 -07:00
Jean Delvare
1359555eb7 Driver core: Make platform_device.id an int
While platform_device.id is a u32, platform_device_add() handles "-1"
as a special id value. This has potential for confusion and bugs.
Making it an int instead should prevent problems from happening in
the future.

Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-10-12 14:51:07 -07:00
Akinobu Mita
44b760a825 sysdev: remove global sysdev drivers list
No one uses sysdev_drivers. Because no one calls sysdev_driver_register
with NULL class.

And it is difficult to imagine that someone want to implement a global
sysdev driver which is called with all sys_device on any kind of
sysdev_class.

So this patch removes global sysdev_drivers list and update comments
for this change.

Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-10-12 14:51:07 -07:00
Adrian Bunk
b4d1eb2cce drivers/base/power/: make 2 functions static
suspend_device() and resume_device() can now become static.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-10-12 14:51:06 -07:00
Markus Rechberger
109f0e93b6 Fix Firmware class name collision
following patch fixes the i2c name collision with i2c-dev.

http://mcentral.de/wiki/index.php/Bugtracker#i2c_core_problem

This issue has been experienced with em28xx and saa7133 based devices.
I discussed that problem with Jean Delvare a while ago and he proposed 
to add a prefix to the class name.

Signed-off-by: Markus Rechberger <markus.rechberger@amd.com>
Acked-by: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-10-12 14:51:06 -07:00
Kay Sievers
7ac1cf4a87 Driver core: add uevent file for bus and driver
This has been in the SuSE kernels for some time now.

Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-10-12 14:51:06 -07:00
Kay Sievers
5c5daf657c Driver core: exclude kobject_uevent.c for !CONFIG_HOTPLUG
Move uevent specific logic from the core into kobject_uevent.c, which
does no longer require to link the unused string array if hotplug
is not compiled in.

Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-10-12 14:51:06 -07:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman
5901d0145c Driver core: remove get_bus()
get_bus() should not be globally visable as it is not used by anything
other than drivers/base/bus.c.  This patch removes the visability of it,
and renames it to match all of the other *_get() functions in the
kernel.


Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-10-12 14:51:02 -07:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman
fc1ede5888 Driver core: remove put_bus()
put_bus() should not be globally visable as it is not used by anything
other than drivers/base/bus.c.  This patch removes the visability of it,
and renames it to match all of the other *_put() functions in the
kernel.


Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-10-12 14:51:02 -07:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman
1ef4cfac01 Driver core: remove subsys_get()
There are no more subsystems, it's a kset now so remove the function and
the only two users, which are in the driver core.


Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-10-12 14:51:01 -07:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman
6e9d930d16 Driver core: remove subsys_put()
There are no more subsystems, it's a kset now so remove the function and
the only two users, which are in the driver core.


Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-10-12 14:51:01 -07:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman
27f20e5e4e Driver core: remove kset_set_kset_s
This macro is only used by the driver core and is held over from when we
had subsystems.  It is not needed anymore.


Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-10-12 14:51:01 -07:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman
d6b05b84ed Driver core: remove subsys_set_kset
This macro is only used by the driver core and is held over from when we
had subsystems.  It is not needed anymore.


Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-10-12 14:51:01 -07:00
Kay Sievers
6a8d8abb6e Driver core: add CONFIG_UEVENT_HELPER_PATH
The kernel creates a process for every event that is send, even when
there is no binary it could execute.  We are needlessly creating around
200-300 failing processes during early bootup, until we have the chance
to disable it from userspace.

This change allows us to disable /sbin/hotplug entirely, if you want to,
by setting UEVENT_HELPER_PATH="" in the kernel config.

Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-10-12 14:51:01 -07:00