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2006-04-14	[PATCH] sysfs: Allow sysfs attribute files to be pollable	NeilBrown	1	-0/+1
	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 <neilb@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-04-02	Documentation: fix minor kernel-doc warnings	Martin Waitz	1	-1/+1
	This patch updates the comments to match the actual code. Signed-off-by: Martin Waitz <tali@admingilde.org> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2006-03-28	[PATCH] Make most file operations structs in fs/ const	Arjan van de Ven	1	-1/+1
	This is a conversion to make the various file_operations structs in fs/ const. Basically a regexp job, with a few manual fixups The goal is both to increase correctness (harder to accidentally write to shared datastructures) and reducing the false sharing of cachelines with things that get dirty in .data (while .rodata is nicely read only and thus cache clean) Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-20	[PATCH] sysfs: don't export dir symbols	Greg Kroah-Hartman	1	-4/+0
	These functions should only be used by the kobject core, and if any driver tries to use them, bad things happen. Unexport them to try to prevent this from happening. Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-03-20	[PATCH] sysfs: fix problem with duplicate sysfs directories and files	Maneesh Soni	1	-1/+31
	The following patch checks for existing sysfs_dirent before preparing new one while creating sysfs directories and files. Signed-off-by: Maneesh Soni <maneesh@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-03-20	[PATCH] sysfs: sysfs_remove_dir() needs to invalidate the dentry	Greg Kroah-Hartman	1	-0/+1
	When calling sysfs_remove_dir() don't allow any further sysfs functions to work for this kobject anymore. This fixes a nasty USB cdc-acm oops on disconnect. Many thanks to Bob Copeland and Paul Fulghum for taking the time to track this down. Cc: Bob Copeland <email@bobcopeland.com> Cc: Paul Fulghum <paulkf@microgate.com> Cc: Maneesh Soni <maneesh@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-01-09	[PATCH] mutex subsystem, semaphore to mutex: VFS, ->i_sem	Jes Sorensen	1	-16/+15
	This patch converts the inode semaphore to a mutex. I have tested it on XFS and compiled as much as one can consider on an ia64. Anyway your luck with it might be different. Modified-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> (finished the conversion) Signed-off-by: Jes Sorensen <jes@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2006-01-04	[PATCH] sysfs: handle failures in sysfs_make_dirent	Steven Rostedt	1	-1/+5
	I noticed that if sysfs_make_dirent fails to allocate the sd, then a null will be passed to sysfs_put. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2005-06-23	[PATCH] remove duplicate get_dentry functions in various places	Christoph Hellwig	1	-2/+3
	Various filesystem drivers have grown a get_dentry() function that's a duplicate of lookup_one_len, except that it doesn't take a maximum length argument and doesn't check for \0 or / in the passed in filename. Switch all these places to use lookup_one_len. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> Cc: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-20	[PATCH] sysfs-iattr: add sysfs_setattr	Maneesh Soni	1	-0/+1
	o This adds ->i_op->setattr VFS method for sysfs inodes. The changed attribues are saved in the persistent sysfs_dirent structure as a pointer to struct iattr. The struct iattr is allocated only for those sysfs_dirent's for which default attributes are getting changed. Thanks to Jon Smirl for this suggestion. Signed-off-by: Maneesh Soni <maneesh@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2005-06-20	[PATCH] sysfs-iattr: attach sysfs_dirent before new inode	Maneesh Soni	1	-10/+15
	o The following patch makes sure to attach sysfs_dirent to the dentry before allocation a new inode through sysfs_create(). This change is done as preparatory work for implementing ->i_op->setattr() functionality for sysfs objects. Signed-off-by: Maneesh Soni <maneesh@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2005-04-16	Linux-2.6.12-rc2	Linus Torvalds	1	-0/+475
	Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history, even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about 3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good infrastructure for it. Let it rip!