linux/drivers/base/class.c, branch v2.6.34

driver-core: document ERR_PTR() return values

2010-03-19T14:12:21Z

A number of functions in the driver core return ERR_PTR() values on error. Document this in the kernel-doc of the functions. Signed-off-by: Jani Nikula Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

Driver core: Constify struct sysfs_ops in struct kobj_type

2010-03-08T01:04:49Z

Constify struct sysfs_ops. This is part of the ops structure constification effort started by Arjan van de Ven et al. Benefits of this constification: * prevents modification of data that is shared (referenced) by many other structure instances at runtime * detects/prevents accidental (but not intentional) modification attempts on archs that enforce read-only kernel data at runtime * potentially better optimized code as the compiler can assume that the const data cannot be changed * the compiler/linker move const data into .rodata and therefore exclude them from false sharing Signed-off-by: Emese Revfy Acked-by: David Teigland Acked-by: Matt Domsch Acked-by: Maciej Sosnowski Acked-by: Hans J. Koch Acked-by: Pekka Enberg Acked-by: Jens Axboe Acked-by: Stephen Hemminger Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

driver core: Add class_attr_string for simple read-only string

2010-03-08T01:04:48Z

Several drivers just export a static string as class attributes. Use the new extensible attribute support to define a simple CLASS_ATTR_STRING() macro for this. This will allow to remove code from drivers in followon patches. Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

driver-core: Add attribute argument to class_attribute show/store

2010-03-08T01:04:48Z

Passing the attribute to the low level IO functions allows all kinds of cleanups, by sharing low level IO code without requiring an own function for every piece of data. Also drivers can extend the attributes with own data fields and use that in the low level function. This makes the class attributes the same as sysdev_class attributes and plain attributes. This will allow further cleanups in drivers. Full tree sweep converting all users. Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

class: Free the class private data in class_release

2010-02-16T23:43:00Z

Fix a memory leak by freeing the memory allocated in __class_register for the class private data. Signed-off-by: Laurent Pinchart Acked-by: Artem Bityutskiy Cc: stable Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

Driver core: Add support for compatibility classes

2009-09-15T16:50:48Z

When turning class devices into bus devices, we may need to temporarily add links in sysfs so that user-space applications are not confused. This is done by adding the following API: * Functions to register and unregister compatibility classes. These appear in sysfs at the same location as regular classes, but instead of class devices, they contain links to bus devices. * Functions to create and delete such links. Additionally, the caller can optionally pass a target device to which a "device" link should point (typically that would be the device's parent), to fully emulate the original class device. The i2c subsystem will be the first user of this API, as i2c adapters are being converted from class devices to bus devices. Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers

driver-core: use klist for class device list and implement iterator

2008-10-09T06:56:04Z

Iterating over entries using callback usually isn't too fun especially when the entry being iterated over can't be manipulated freely. This patch converts class->p->class_devices to klist and implements class device iterator so that the users can freely build their own control structure. The users are also free to call back into class code without worrying about locking. class_for_each_device() and class_find_device() are converted to use the new iterators, so their users don't have to worry about locking anymore either. Note: This depends on klist-dont-iterate-over-deleted-entries patch because class_intf->add/remove_dev() depends on proper synchronization with device removal. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman Cc: Jens Axboe Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

driver model: anti-oopsing medicine

2008-08-21T17:15:36Z

Anti-oops medicine for the class iterators ... the oops was observed when a class was implicitly referenced before it was initialized. [Modified by Greg to spit a warning back so someone knows to fix their code] Signed-off-by: David Brownell Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

locking: fix mutex @key parameter kernel-doc notation

2008-07-28T16:12:36Z

Fix @key parameter to mutex_init() and one of its callers. Warning(linux-2.6.26-git11//drivers/base/class.c:210): No description found for parameter 'key' Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

class: change internal semaphore to a mutex

2008-07-22T04:54:52Z

Now that the lockdep infrastructure in the class core is in place, we should be able to properly change the internal class semaphore to be a mutex. David wrote the original patch, and Greg fixed it up to apply properly due to all of the recent changes in this area. From: Dave Young Cc: Matthew Wilcox Cc: Kay Sievers Cc: Andrew Morton Cc: James Bottomley Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman