linux/drivers/base/core.c, branch v2.6.32

Driver-Core: extend devnode callbacks to provide permissions

2009-09-19T19:50:38Z

This allows subsytems to provide devtmpfs with non-default permissions for the device node. Instead of the default mode of 0600, null, zero, random, urandom, full, tty, ptmx now have a mode of 0666, which allows non-privileged processes to access standard device nodes in case no other userspace process applies the expected permissions. This also fixes a wrong assignment in pktcdvd and a checkpatch.pl complain. Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

Driver Core: devtmpfs - kernel-maintained tmpfs-based /dev

2009-09-15T16:50:49Z

Devtmpfs lets the kernel create a tmpfs instance called devtmpfs very early at kernel initialization, before any driver-core device is registered. Every device with a major/minor will provide a device node in devtmpfs. Devtmpfs can be changed and altered by userspace at any time, and in any way needed - just like today's udev-mounted tmpfs. Unmodified udev versions will run just fine on top of it, and will recognize an already existing kernel-created device node and use it. The default node permissions are root:root 0600. Proper permissions and user/group ownership, meaningful symlinks, all other policy still needs to be applied by userspace. If a node is created by devtmps, devtmpfs will remove the device node when the device goes away. If the device node was created by userspace, or the devtmpfs created node was replaced by userspace, it will no longer be removed by devtmpfs. If it is requested to auto-mount it, it makes init=/bin/sh work without any further userspace support. /dev will be fully populated and dynamic, and always reflect the current device state of the kernel. With the commonly used dynamic device numbers, it solves the problem where static devices nodes may point to the wrong devices. It is intended to make the initial bootup logic simpler and more robust, by de-coupling the creation of the inital environment, to reliably run userspace processes, from a complex userspace bootstrap logic to provide a working /dev. Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers Signed-off-by: Jan Blunck Tested-By: Harald Hoyer Tested-By: Scott James Remnant Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

driver model: constify attribute groups

2009-09-15T16:50:47Z

Let attribute group vectors be declared "const". We'd like to let most attribute metadata live in read-only sections... this is a start. Signed-off-by: David Brownell Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

Driver core: move dev_get/set_drvdata to drivers/base/dd.c

2009-09-15T16:50:47Z

No one should directly access the driver_data field, so remove the field and make it private. We dynamically create the private field now if it is needed, to handle drivers that call get/set before they are registered with the driver core. Also update the copyright notices on these files while we are there. Cc: Kay Sievers Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

Driver core: add new device to bus's list before probing

2009-09-15T16:50:46Z

This patch (as1271) affects when new devices get linked into their bus's list of devices. Currently this happens after probing, and it doesn't happen at all if probing fails. Clearly this is wrong, because at that point quite a few symbolic links have already been created in sysfs. We are committed to adding the device, so it should be linked into the bus's list regardless. In addition, this needs to happen before the uevent announcing the new device gets issued. Otherwise user programs might try to access the device before it has been added to the bus. To fix both these problems, the patch moves the call to klist_add_tail() forward from bus_attach_device() to bus_add_device(). Since bus_attach_device() now does nothing but probe for drivers, it has been renamed to bus_probe_device(). And lastly, the kerneldoc is updated. Signed-off-by: Alan Stern CC: Kay Sievers Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

Driver Core: add nodename callbacks

2009-06-16T04:30:25Z

This adds the nodename callback for struct class, struct device_type and struct device, to allow drivers to send userspace hints on the device name and subdirectory that should be used for it. Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers Signed-off-by: Jan Blunck Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

driver core: fix gcc 4.3.3 warnings about string literals

2009-06-16T04:30:25Z

This removes the warning: format not a string literal and no format arguments warnings in the driver core that gcc 4.3.3 complains about. Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

driver core: synchronize device shutdown

2009-06-16T04:30:24Z

A patch series to make .shutdown execute asynchronously. Some drivers's shutdown can take a lot of time. The patches can help save some shutdown time. The patches use Arjan's async API. This patch: synchronize all tasks submitted by .shutdown Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li Cc: Arjan van de Ven Cc: Dmitry Torokhov Cc: James Bottomley Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

Driver Core: do not oops when driver_unregister() is called for unregistered drivers

2009-05-28T21:24:07Z

We also fix a problem with cleaning up properly when initializing drivers and devices, so checks like this will work successfully. Portions of the patch by Linus and Greg and Ingo. Reported-by: Ozan Çağlayan Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Ingo Molnar Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

driver: dont update dev_name via device_add path

2009-04-20T15:12:58Z

notice one system /proc/iomem some entries missed the name for pci_devices it turns that dev->dev.kobj name is changed after device_add. for pci code: via acpi_pci_root_driver.ops.add (aka acpi_pci_root_add) ==> pci_acpi_scan_root is used to scan pci bus/device, and at the same time we read the resource for pci_dev in the pci_read_bases, we have res->name = pci_name(pci_dev); pci_name is calling dev_name. later via acpi_pci_root_driver.ops.start (aka acpi_pci_root_start) ==> pci_bus_add_device to add all pci_dev in kobj tree. pci_bus_add_device will call device_add. actually in device_add /* first, register with generic layer. */ error = kobject_add(&dev->kobj, dev->kobj.parent, "%s", dev_name(dev)); if (error) goto Error; will get one new name for that kobj, old name is freed. [Impact: fix corrupted names in /proc/iomem ] Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds