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| author |   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> | 2007-11-02 13:20:40 -0700 |
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| committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> | 2008-01-24 20:40:19 -0800 |
| commit | 9e5f7f9abe18a4f134585a2de016974cbda80539 (patch) | |
| tree | 895be0970aadd1b4e8584891d546ef4379a15e40 | |
| parent | kobject: convert efivars to kobj_attr interface (diff) | |
| download | linux-dev-9e5f7f9abe18a4f134585a2de016974cbda80539.tar.xz linux-dev-9e5f7f9abe18a4f134585a2de016974cbda80539.zip | |
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>
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/base/firmware.c | 3 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/kobject.h | 2 |
2 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/base/firmware.c b/drivers/base/firmware.c index 6a4e494042f6..c7f635b11dfd 100644 --- a/drivers/base/firmware.c +++ b/drivers/base/firmware.c @@ -15,7 +15,8 @@ #include "base.h" -static struct kset *firmware_kset; +struct kset *firmware_kset; +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(firmware_kset); int firmware_register(struct kset *s) { diff --git a/include/linux/kobject.h b/include/linux/kobject.h index e694261de90f..29dc444e3361 100644 --- a/include/linux/kobject.h +++ b/include/linux/kobject.h @@ -210,6 +210,8 @@ extern struct kset *kernel_kset; extern struct kobject *hypervisor_kobj; /* The global /sys/power/ kset for people to chain off of */ extern struct kset *power_kset; +/* The global /sys/firmware/ kset for people to chain off of */ +extern struct kset *firmware_kset; extern int __must_check subsystem_register(struct kset *); extern void subsystem_unregister(struct kset *); |