kernel.git/include/linux/kobject.h, branch linux-2.6.21.y

sysfs: Shadow directory support

2007-02-07T18:37:14Z

The problem. When implementing a network namespace I need to be able to have multiple network devices with the same name. Currently this is a problem for /sys/class/net/*. What I want is a separate /sys/class/net directory in sysfs for each network namespace, and I want to name each of them /sys/class/net. I looked and the VFS actually allows that. All that is needed is for /sys/class/net to implement a follow link method to redirect lookups to the real directory you want. Implementing a follow link method that is sensitive to the current network namespace turns out to be 3 lines of code so it looks like a clean approach. Modifying sysfs so it doesn't get in my was is a bit trickier. I am calling the concept of multiple directories all at the same path in the filesystem shadow directories. With the directory entry really at that location the shadow master. The following patch modifies sysfs so it can handle a directory structure slightly different from the kobject tree so I can implement the shadow directories for handling /sys/class/net/. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman Cc: Maneesh Soni Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

kobject: kobject_uevent() returns manageable value

2006-12-20T18:56:44Z

Since kobject_uevent() function does not return an integer value to indicate if its operation was completed with success or not, it is worth changing it in order to report a proper status (success or error) instead of returning void. [randy.dunlap@oracle.com: Fix inline kobject functions] Cc: Mauricio Lin Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

driver core: Introduce device_move(): move a device to a new parent.

2006-12-01T22:52:01Z

Provide a function device_move() to move a device to a new parent device. Add auxilliary functions kobject_move() and sysfs_move_dir(). kobject_move() generates a new uevent of type KOBJ_MOVE, containing the previous path (DEVPATH_OLD) in addition to the usual values. For this, a new interface kobject_uevent_env() is created that allows to add further environmental data to the uevent at the kobject layer. Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck Acked-by: Kay Sievers Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

add __must_check to device management code

2006-09-26T04:08:39Z

We're getting a lot of crashes in the sysfs/kobject/device/bus/class code and they're very hard to diagnose. I'm suspecting that in some cases this is because drivers aren't checking return values and aren't handling errors correctly. So the code blithely blunders on and crashes later in very obscure ways. There's just no reason to ignore errors which can and do occur. So the patch sprinkles __must_check all over these APIs. Causes 1,513 new warnings. Heh. Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

PCI: docking station: remove dock uevents

2006-08-03T20:20:06Z

Remove uevent dock notifications. There are no consumers of these events at present, and uevents are likely not the correct way to send this type of event anyway. Until I get some kind of idea if anyone in userspace cares about dock events, I will just not send any. Signed-off-by: Kristen Carlson Accardi Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

KEVENT: add new uevent for dock

2006-06-27T05:24:15Z

so that userspace can be notified of dock and undock events. Signed-off-by: Kristen Carlson Accardi Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Len Brown

[PATCH] Driver Core: Add /sys/hypervisor when needed

2006-06-21T19:40:48Z

To have a home for all hypervisors, this patch creates /sys/hypervisor. A new config option SYS_HYPERVISOR is introduced, which should to be set by architecture dependent hypervisors (e.g. s390 or Xen). Acked-by: Martin Schwidefsky Signed-off-by: Michael Holzheu Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

[PATCH] Kobject: possible cleanups

2006-04-27T20:08:56Z

This patch contains the following possible cleanups: - #if 0 the following unused global function: - subsys_remove_file() - remove the following unused EXPORT_SYMBOL's: - kset_find_obj - subsystem_init - remove the following unused EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL: - kobject_add_dir Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

[PATCH] Kobject: fix build error

2006-04-27T20:08:56Z

This fixes a build error for various odd combinations of CONFIG_HOTPLUG and CONFIG_NET. Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers Cc: Nigel Cunningham Cc: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

[PATCH] sysfs: Allow sysfs attribute files to be pollable

2006-04-14T18:41:24Z

It works like this: Open the file Read all the contents. Call poll requesting POLLERR or POLLPRI (so select/exceptfds works) When poll returns, close the file and go to top of loop. or lseek to start of file and go back to the 'read'. Events are signaled by an object manager calling sysfs_notify(kobj, dir, attr); If the dir is non-NULL, it is used to find a subdirectory which contains the attribute (presumably created by sysfs_create_group). This has a cost of one int per attribute, one wait_queuehead per kobject, one int per open file. The name "sysfs_notify" may be confused with the inotify functionality. Maybe it would be nice to support inotify for sysfs attributes as well? This patch also uses sysfs_notify to allow /sys/block/md*/md/sync_action to be pollable Signed-off-by: Neil Brown Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman