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2007-05-02remove "struct subsystem" as it is no longer neededGreg Kroah-Hartman1-11/+11
We need to work on cleaning up the relationship between kobjects, ksets and ktypes. The removal of 'struct subsystem' is the first step of this, especially as it is not really needed at all. Thanks to Kay for fixing the bugs in this patch. Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-05-02Driver core: fix show_uevent from taking up way too much stackGreg Kroah-Hartman1-1/+6
Declaring an array of PAGE_SIZE does bad things for people running with 4k stacks... Thanks to Tilman Schmidt for tracking this down. Cc: Tilman Schmidt <tilman@imap.cc> Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-04-27device_schedule_callback() needs a module referenceAlan Stern1-6/+10
This patch (as896b) fixes an oversight in the design of device_schedule_callback(). It is necessary to acquire a reference to the module owning the callback routine, to prevent the module from being unloaded before the callback can run. Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> Cc: Satyam Sharma <satyam.sharma@gmail.com> Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Cc: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-04-27Driver core: warn when userspace writes to the uevent file in a non-supported wayKay Sievers1-0/+3
In the future we will allow the uevent type to be written to the uevent file to trigger the different types of uevents. But for now, as we only support the ADD event, warn if userspace tries to write anything else to this file. Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-04-27Driver core: make uevent-environment available in uevent-fileKay Sievers1-1/+49
This allows sysfs to show the environment variables that are available if the uevent happens. This lets userspace not have to cache all of this information as the kernel already knows it. Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-04-27Driver core: suppress uevents via filterCornelia Huck1-2/+3
Suppress uevents for devices if uevent_suppress is set via dev_uevent_filter(). This makes the driver core suppress all device uevents, not just the add event in device_add(). Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com> Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-04-27driver core: don't fail attaching the device if it cannot be boundCornelia Huck1-4/+1
Don't fail bus_attach_device() if the device cannot be bound. If dev->driver has been specified, reset it to NULL if device_bind_driver() failed and add the device as an unbound device. As a result, bus_attach_device() now cannot fail, and we can remove some checking from device_add(). Also remove an unneeded check in bus_rescan_devices_helper(). Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-04-27Driver core: add name to device_typeKay Sievers1-0/+5
If "name" of a device_type is specified, the uevent will contain the device_type name in the DEVTYPE variable. This helps userspace to distingiush between different types of devices, belonging to the same subsystem. Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-04-27driver core: Use attribute groups in struct device_typeDmitry Torokhov1-46/+69
Driver core: use attribute groups in struct device_type Attribute groups are more flexible than attribute lists (an attribute list can be represented by anonymous group) so switch struct device_type to use them. Also rework attribute creation for devices so that they all cleaned up properly in case of errors. Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru> Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@novell.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-04-27dev_printk and new-style class devicesJean Delvare1-1/+2
As the new-style class devices (as opposed to old-style struct class_device) are becoming more widely used, I noticed that the dev_printk-based functions are not working properly with these. New-style class devices have no driver nor bus, almost by definition, and as a result dev_driver_string(), which is used as the first parameter of dev_printk, resolves to an empty string. This causes entries like the following to show in my logs: i2c-2: adapter [SMBus stub driver] registered Notice the unaesthetical leading whitespace. In order to fix this problem, I suggest that we extend dev_driver_string to deal with new-style class devices: Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-04-27driver core: fix namespace issue with devices assigned to classesKay Sievers1-17/+65
- uses a kset in "struct class" to keep track of all directories belonging to this class - merges with the /sys/devices/virtual logic. - removes the namespace-dir if the last member of that class leaves the directory. There may be locking or refcounting fixes left, I stopped when it seemed to work with network and sound modules. :) From: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-04-27driver core: fix device_add error pathDmitriy Monakhov1-9/+0
- At the moment we jump here device was't added to dev->class->devices list yet. Signed-off-by: Monakhov Dmitriy <dmonakhov@openvz.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-04-04[PATCH] remove protection of LANANA-reserved majorsAndrew Morton1-14/+0
Revert all this. It can cause device-mapper to receive a different major from earlier kernels and it turns out that the Amanda backup program (via GNU tar, apparently) checks major numbers on files when performing incremental backups. Which is a bit broken of Amanda (or tar), but this feature isn't important enough to justify the churn. Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-03-15[PATCH] sysfs and driver core: add callback helper, used by SCSI and S390Alan Stern1-0/+29
This patch (as868) adds a helper routine for device drivers that need to set up a callback to perform some action in a different process's context. This is intended for use by attribute methods that want to unregister themselves or their parent device. Attribute method calls are mutually exclusive with unregistration, so such actions cannot be taken directly. Two attribute methods are converted to use the new helper routine: one for SCSI device deletion and one for System/390 ccwgroup devices. Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Cc: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com> Cc: Oliver Neukum <oneukum@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-03-09driver core: export device_renameJohannes Berg1-1/+1
In wireless we'd like to allow renaming of the phy devices we surface in sysfs. The base wireless code, however, can be built modular and thus we need device_rename exported. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-03-09Driver core: add device symlink back to sysfsGreg Kroah-Hartman1-8/+13
This moves the device symlink back to sysfs even if CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED is enabled as too many userspace programs (well, HAL), still rely on this link to be present. I will rework the ability for sysfs to change layouts like this in the future, but for now, this patch should fix people's network connections. Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-03-09devres: release resources on device_del()Tejun Heo1-0/+7
Some platform devices are driven without driver attached, so managed resources can be acquired without driver attached. Make sure such resources are released by calling devres_release_all() in device_del(). Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2007-02-23Driver core: fix error by cleanup up symlinks properlyJames Simmons1-1/+30
When a device fails to register the class symlinks where not cleaned up. This left a symlink in the /sys/class/"device"/ directory that pointed to no where. This caused the sysfs_follow_link Oops I reported earlier. This patch cleanups up the symlink. Please apply. Thank you. Signed-Off: James Simmons <jsimmons@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-02-20[PATCH] rework reserved major handlingAndrew Morton1-0/+14
Several people have reported failures in dynamic major device number handling due to the recent changes in there to avoid handing out the local/experimental majors. Rolf reports that this is due to a gcc-4.1.0 bug. The patch refactors that code a lot in an attempt to provoke the compiler into behaving. Cc: Rolf Eike Beer <eike-kernel@sf-tec.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-02-09devres: device resource managementTejun Heo1-0/+2
Implement device resource management, in short, devres. A device driver can allocate arbirary size of devres data which is associated with a release function. On driver detach, release function is invoked on the devres data, then, devres data is freed. devreses are typed by associated release functions. Some devreses are better represented by single instance of the type while others need multiple instances sharing the same release function. Both usages are supported. devreses can be grouped using devres group such that a device driver can easily release acquired resources halfway through initialization or selectively release resources (e.g. resources for port 1 out of 4 ports). This patch adds devres core including documentation and the following managed interfaces. * alloc/free : devm_kzalloc(), devm_kzfree() * IO region : devm_request_region(), devm_release_region() * IRQ : devm_request_irq(), devm_free_irq() * DMA : dmam_alloc_coherent(), dmam_free_coherent(), dmam_declare_coherent_memory(), dmam_pool_create(), dmam_pool_destroy() * PCI : pcim_enable_device(), pcim_pin_device(), pci_is_managed() * iomap : devm_ioport_map(), devm_ioport_unmap(), devm_ioremap(), devm_ioremap_nocache(), devm_iounmap(), pcim_iomap_table(), pcim_iomap(), pcim_iounmap() Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2007-02-07Driver core: allow to delay the uevent at device creation timeKay Sievers1-1/+2
For the block subsystem, we want to delay all uevents until the disk has been scanned and allpartitons are already created before the first event is sent out. Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@novell.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-02-07Driver core: add device_type to struct deviceKay Sievers1-18/+39
This allows us to add type specific attributes, uevent vars and release funtions. A subsystem can carry different types of devices like the "block" subsys has disks and partitions. Both types create a different set of attributes, but belong to the same subsystem. This corresponds to the low level objects: kobject -> device (object/device data) kobj_type -> device_type (type of object/device we are embedded in) kset -> class/bus (list of objects/devices of a subsystem) Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@novell.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-02-07Driver core: add uevent vars for devices of a classKay Sievers1-12/+34
Devices converted from class_device to device should have the same uevent keys as the original class_device had. We search up the parents until we find the first bus device and add the (already deprecated) PHYDEV* values. Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@novell.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-02-07driver core fixes: make_class_name() retval checksCornelia Huck1-6/+11
Make make_class_name() return NULL on error and fixup callers in the driver core. Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-02-07driver core: Allow device_move(dev, NULL).Cornelia Huck1-29/+47
If we allow NULL as the new parent in device_move(), we need to make sure that the device is placed into the same place as it would if it was newly registered: - Consider the device virtual tree. In order to be able to reuse code, setup_parent() has been tweaked a bit. - kobject_move() can fall back to the kset's kobject. - sysfs_move_dir() uses the sysfs root dir as fallback. Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com> Cc: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-02-07driver core: Remove device_is_registered() in device_move().Cornelia Huck1-4/+0
device_is_registered() will always be false for a device with no bus. Remove this check and trust the caller to know what they're doing. Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com> Cc: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-12-07[PATCH] add numa node information to struct deviceChristoph Hellwig1-0/+1
For node-aware skb allocations we need information about the node in struct net_device or struct device. Davem suggested to put it into struct device which this patch does. In particular: - struct device gets a new int numa_node member if CONFIG_NUMA is set - there are two new helpers, dev_to_node and set_dev_node to transparently deal with the non-numa case - for pci devices the node-info is set to the value we get from pcibus_to_node. Note that for some architectures pcibus_to_node doesn't work yet at the time we call it currently. This is harmless and will just mean skb allocations aren't node-local on this architectures until the implementation of pcibus_to_node on these architectures have been updated (There are patches for x86 and x86_64 floating around) [akpm@osdl.org: cleanup] Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@engr.sgi.com> Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-01driver core: Use klist_remove() in device_move()Cornelia Huck1-2/+2
As pointed out by Alan Stern, device_move needs to use klist_remove which waits until removal is complete. Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com> Cc: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-12-01driver core: Introduce device_move(): move a device to a new parent.Cornelia Huck1-0/+92
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 <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com> Acked-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-12-01Driver core: make drivers/base/core.c:setup_parent() staticAdrian Bunk1-2/+2
This patch makes the needlessly global setup_parent() static. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-12-01driver core: Introduce device_find_child().Cornelia Huck1-0/+33
Introduce device_find_child() to match device_for_each_child(). Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-12-01Driver core: Call platform_notify_remove laterBenjamin Herrenschmidt1-1/+1
Move the call to platform_notify_remove() to after the call to bus_remove_device(), where it belongs. It's bogus to notify the platform of removal while drivers are still attached to the device and possibly still operating since the platform might use this callback to tear down some resources used by the driver (ACPI bits, iommu table, ...) Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: "Brown, Len" <len.brown@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-12-01CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED - PHYSDEV* uevent variablesKay Sievers1-0/+4
Disable the PHYSDEV* uevent variables if CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED is enabled. Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-12-01CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED - device symlinksKay Sievers1-4/+14
Turn off device symlinks CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED is enabled. Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-12-01Driver core: make old versions of udev work properlyGreg Kroah-Hartman1-14/+45
If CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED is enabled, old versions of udev will work properly with devices that are associated with a class. Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-12-01Driver Core: Move virtual_device_parent() to core.cGreg Kroah-Hartman1-0/+17
It doesn't need to be global or in device.h Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-12-01Driver core: add notification of bus eventsBenjamin Herrenschmidt1-0/+12
I finally did as you suggested and added the notifier to the struct bus_type itself. There are still problems to be expected is something attaches to a bus type where the code can hook in different struct device sub-classes (which is imho a big bogosity but I won't even try to argue that case now) but it will solve nicely a number of issues I've had so far. That also means that clients interested in registering for such notifications have to do it before devices are added and after bus types are registered. Fortunately, most bus types that matter for the various usage scenarios I have in mind are registerd at postcore_initcall time, which means I have a really nice spot at arch_initcall time to add my notifiers. There are 4 notifications provided. Device being added (before hooked to the bus) and removed (failure of previous case or after being unhooked from the bus), along with driver being bound to a device and about to be unbound. The usage I have for these are: - The 2 first ones are used to maintain a struct device_ext that is hooked to struct device.firmware_data. This structure contains for now a pointer to the Open Firmware node related to the device (if any), the NUMA node ID (for quick access to it) and the DMA operations pointers & iommu table instance for DMA to/from this device. For bus types I own (like IBM VIO or EBUS), I just maintain that structure directly from the bus code when creating the devices. But for bus types managed by generic code like PCI or platform (actually, of_platform which is a variation of platform linked to Open Firmware device-tree), I need this notifier. - The other two ones have a completely different usage scenario. I have cases where multiple devices and their drivers depend on each other. For example, the IBM EMAC network driver needs to attach to a MAL DMA engine which is a separate device, and a PHY interface which is also a separate device. They are all of_platform_device's (well, about to be with my upcoming patches) but there is no say in what precise order the core will "probe" them and instanciate the various modules. The solution I found for that is to have the drivers for emac to use multithread_probe, and wait for a driver to be bound to the target MAL and PHY control devices (the device-tree contains reference to the MAL and PHY interface nodes, which I can then match to of_platform_devices). Right now, I've been polling, but with that notifier, I can more cleanly wait (with a timeout of course). Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-11-25[PATCH] Fix device_attribute memory leak in device_delCatalin Marinas1-1/+3
dev->devt_attr is allocated in device_add() but it is never freed in device_del() in the drivers/base/core.c file (reported by kmemleak). Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@gmail.com> Acked-by: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-10-18Driver core: Don't ignore error returns from probingAlan Stern1-1/+4
This patch (as797) fixes device_add() in the driver core. It needs to pay attention when the driver for a new device reports an error. At the same time, since bus_remove_device() undoes the effects of both bus_add_device() and bus_attach_device(), it needs to check whether the bus_attach_device step failed. Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-10-18Driver core: Don't leak 'old_class_name' in drivers/base/core.c::device_rename()Jesper Juhl1-3/+6
If kmalloc() fails to allocate space for 'old_symlink_name' in drivers/base/core.c::device_rename(), then we'll leak 'old_class_name'. Spotted by the Coverity checker. Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-10-18driver core fixes: device_add() cleanup on errorCornelia Huck1-3/+7
Check for return code of device_create_file() and correct cleanup in the error case in device_add(). Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-10-18Fix dev_printk() is now GPL-onlyMatthew Wilcox1-1/+1
Make dev_printk usable from non-GPL modules again dev_printk now calls dev_driver_string. We want even proprietary modules to be calling dev_printk, so the export of dev_driver_string needs to be non-GPL-only. Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-09-25drivers/base: Platform notify needs to occur before drivers attach to the deviceBrian Walsh1-4/+4
The platform_notify call for Arm and PPC architectures needs to be called before the driver attaches to the device. The problem only presents itself when hotplugging certain devices while the driver is already loaded. Signed-off-by: Brian Walsh <brian@walsh.ws> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-09-25Driver core: add ability for devices to create and remove bin filesGreg Kroah-Hartman1-0/+26
Makes it easier for devices to create and remove binary attribute files so they don't have to call directly into sysfs. This is needed to help with the conversion from struct class_device to struct device. Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-09-25Class: add support for class interfaces for devicesGreg Kroah-Hartman1-1/+13
When moving class_device usage over to device, we need to handle class_interfaces properly with devices. This patch adds that support. Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-09-25Driver core: create devices/virtual/ treeGreg Kroah-Hartman1-0/+7
This change creates a devices/virtual/CLASS_NAME tree for struct devices that belong to a class, yet do not have a "real" struct device for a parent. It automatically creates the directories on the fly as needed. Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-09-25Driver core: add device_rename functionGreg Kroah-Hartman1-0/+55
The network layer needs this to convert to using struct device instead of a struct class_device. Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-09-25Driver core: add ability for classes to handle devices properlyGreg Kroah-Hartman1-0/+53
This adds two new callbacks to the class structure: int (*dev_uevent)(struct device *dev, char **envp, int num_envp, char *buffer, int buffer_size); void (*dev_release)(struct device *dev); And one pointer: struct device_attribute * dev_attrs; which all corrispond with the same thing as the "normal" class devices do, yet this is for when a struct device is bound to a class. Someday soon, struct class_device will go away, and then the other fields in this structure can be removed too. But this is necessary in order to get the transition to work properly. Tested out on a network core patch that converted it to use struct device instead of struct class_device. Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-09-25Driver core: allow devices in classes to have no parentGreg Kroah-Hartman1-10/+11
This fixes an oops when a device is attached to a class, yet has no "parent" device. An example of this would be the "lo" device in the network core. We should create a "virtual" subdirectory under /sys/devices/ for these, but no one seems to agree on a proper name for it yet... Oh, and update my copyright on the driver core. Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-09-25Driver core: add groups support to struct deviceGreg Kroah-Hartman1-0/+34
This is needed for the network class devices in order to be able to convert over to use struct device. Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>