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Christoph Hellwig
873481367e [PATCH] add numa node information to struct device
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>
2006-12-07 08:39:22 -08:00
Cornelia Huck
acf02d23b9 driver core: Use klist_remove() in device_move()
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>
2006-12-01 14:52:02 -08:00
Cornelia Huck
8a82472f86 driver core: Introduce device_move(): move a device to a new parent.
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>
2006-12-01 14:52:01 -08:00
Adrian Bunk
af9e076536 Driver core: make drivers/base/core.c:setup_parent() static
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>
2006-12-01 14:52:01 -08:00
Cornelia Huck
5ab699810d driver core: Introduce device_find_child().
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>
2006-12-01 14:52:01 -08:00
Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2895353346 Driver core: Call platform_notify_remove later
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>
2006-12-01 14:52:01 -08:00
Kay Sievers
a87cb2ac4a CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED - PHYSDEV* uevent variables
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>
2006-12-01 14:51:59 -08:00
Kay Sievers
99ef3ef8d5 CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED - device symlinks
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>
2006-12-01 14:51:59 -08:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman
40fa54226f Driver core: make old versions of udev work properly
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>
2006-12-01 14:51:58 -08:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman
f0ee61a6ce Driver Core: Move virtual_device_parent() to core.c
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>
2006-12-01 14:51:58 -08:00
Benjamin Herrenschmidt
116af37820 Driver core: add notification of bus events
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>
2006-12-01 14:51:58 -08:00
Catalin Marinas
82189b9807 [PATCH] Fix device_attribute memory leak in device_del
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>
2006-11-25 13:28:33 -08:00
Alan Stern
f70fa6296c Driver core: Don't ignore error returns from probing
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>
2006-10-18 12:49:55 -07:00
Jesper Juhl
952ab431cd Driver core: Don't leak 'old_class_name' in drivers/base/core.c::device_rename()
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>
2006-10-18 12:49:55 -07:00
Cornelia Huck
a306eea409 driver core fixes: device_add() cleanup on error
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>
2006-10-18 12:49:55 -07:00
Matthew Wilcox
310a922d43 Fix dev_printk() is now GPL-only
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>
2006-10-18 12:49:54 -07:00
Brian Walsh
370226449c drivers/base: Platform notify needs to occur before drivers attach to the device
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>
2006-09-25 21:08:39 -07:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman
2589f1887b Driver core: add ability for devices to create and remove bin files
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>
2006-09-25 21:08:39 -07:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman
c47ed219ba Class: add support for class interfaces for devices
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>
2006-09-25 21:08:38 -07:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman
c205ef4880 Driver core: create devices/virtual/ tree
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>
2006-09-25 21:08:38 -07:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman
a2de48cace Driver core: add device_rename function
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>
2006-09-25 21:08:38 -07:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman
2620efef70 Driver core: add ability for classes to handle devices properly
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>
2006-09-25 21:08:38 -07:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman
64bb5d2c11 Driver core: allow devices in classes to have no parent
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>
2006-09-25 21:08:38 -07:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman
de0ff00d72 Driver core: add groups support to struct device
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>
2006-09-25 21:08:38 -07:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman
5cbe5f8a58 device_create(): make fmt argument 'const char *'
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-09-25 21:08:36 -07:00
Kay Sievers
d81d9d6b9f deprecate PHYSDEV* keys
deprecate PHYSDEV* values in the uevent environment

These values are no longer needed and inconsistent with the
stacking of class devices. The event environment should not
carry properties of a parent device. The key PHYSDEVDRIVER is
available as DRIVER, PHYDEVBUS is indentical SUBSYSTEM. Class
devices should not carry any of these values.

Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-09-25 21:08:36 -07:00
Henrik Kretzschmar
42734dafa4 [PATCH] Driver core: kernel-doc in drivers/base/core.c corrections
Corrects the kerneldocs for device_create() and device_destroy()
with an eye on coding style, grammar and readability.

Signed-off-by: Henrik Kretzschmar <henne@nachtwindheim.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-07-12 16:09:08 -07:00
Randy Dunlap
7d12e9de5d [PATCH] Driver core: fix driver-core kernel-doc
Warning(/var/linsrc/linux-2617-g4//drivers/base/core.c:574): No description found for parameter 'class'
Warning(/var/linsrc/linux-2617-g4//drivers/base/core.c:574): No description found for parameter 'devt'
Warning(/var/linsrc/linux-2617-g4//drivers/base/core.c:626): No description found for parameter 'devt'

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-07-12 16:09:08 -07:00
Jörn Engel
6ab3d5624e Remove obsolete #include <linux/config.h>
Signed-off-by: Jörn Engel <joern@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2006-06-30 19:25:36 +02:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman
5d9fd169c9 [PATCH] Driver core: fix locking issues with the devices that are attached to classes
Doh, that was foolish...

Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-06-22 22:54:30 -07:00
Alan Stern
3e95637a48 [PATCH] Driver Core: Make dev_info and friends print the bus name if there is no driver
This patch (as721) makes dev_info and related macros print the device's
bus name if the device doesn't have a driver, instead of printing just a
blank.  If the device isn't on a bus either... well, then it does leave
a blank space.  But it will be easier for someone else to change if they
want.

Cc: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-06-21 12:40:49 -07:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman
e9a7d305fa [PATCH] Driver core: add proper symlinks for devices
We need to create the "compatible" symlinks that class_devices used to
create when they were in the class directories so that userspace does
not know anything changed at all.

Yeah, we have a lot of symlinks now, but we should be able to get rid of
them in a year or two... (wishful thinking...)

Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-06-21 12:40:49 -07:00
Kay Sievers
b9d9c82b4d [PATCH] Driver core: add generic "subsystem" link to all devices
Like the SUBSYTEM= key we find in the environment of the uevent, this
creates a generic "subsystem" link in sysfs for every device. Userspace
usually doesn't care at all if its a "class" or a "bus" device. This
provides an unified way to determine the subsytem of a device, regardless
of the way the driver core has created it.

Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-06-21 12:40:49 -07:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman
23681e4791 [PATCH] Driver core: allow struct device to have a dev_t
This is the first step in moving class_device to being replaced by
struct device.  It allows struct device to export a dev_t and makes it
easy to dynamically create and destroy struct device as long as they are
associated with a specific class.

Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-06-21 12:40:49 -07:00
Kay Sievers
53877d06d5 [PATCH] Driver core: bus device event delay
split bus_add_device() and send device uevents after sysfs population

Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-06-21 12:40:47 -07:00
Martin Waitz
0863afb32b [PATCH] DocBook: fix kernel-doc comments
Fix typos in comments to remove kernel-doc warnings.

Signed-off-by: Martin Waitz <tali@admingilde.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-10 08:01:53 -08:00
Kay Sievers
312c004d36 [PATCH] driver core: replace "hotplug" by "uevent"
Leave the overloaded "hotplug" word to susbsystems which are handling
real devices. The driver core does not "plug" anything, it just exports
the state to userspace and generates events.

Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-01-04 16:18:08 -08:00
Randy Dunlap
c41455fbac [PATCH] kernel-doc: drivers/base fixes
driver/base: add missing function parameters; eliminate all warnings.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2005-10-28 09:52:56 -07:00
Kay Sievers
a7fd67062e [PATCH] add sysfs attr to re-emit device hotplug event
A "coldplug + udevstart" can be simple like this:
  for i in /sys/block/*/*/uevent; do echo 1 > $i; done
  for i in /sys/class/*/*/uevent; do echo 1 > $i; done
  for i in /sys/bus/*/devices/*/uevent; do echo 1 > $i; done

Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2005-10-28 09:52:51 -07:00
David Brownell
0ac85241eb [PATCH] driver model wakeup flags
This is a refresh of an earlier patch to add "wakeup" support to the
PM core model.  This provides per-device bus-neutral control of the
use of wakeup events.

  * "struct device_pm_info" has two bits that are initialized as
    part of setting up the enclosing struct device:
      - "can_wakeup", reflecting hardware capabilities
      - "may_wakeup", the policy setting (when CONFIG_PM)

  * There's a writeable sysfs "wakeup" file, with one of two values:
      - "enabled", when the policy is to allow wakeup
      - "disabled", when the policy is not to allow it
      - "" if the device can't currently issue wakeups

By default, wakeup is enabled on all devices that support it.  If its
driver doesn't support it ... treat it as a bug.  :)

Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2005-10-28 09:52:50 -07:00
James Bottomley
34bb61f9dd [PATCH] fix klist semantics for lists which have elements removed on traversal
The problem is that klists claim to provide semantics for safe traversal of
lists which are being modified.  The failure case is when traversal of a
list causes element removal (a fairly common case).  The issue is that
although the list node is refcounted, if it is embedded in an object (which
is universally the case), then the object will be freed regardless of the
klist refcount leading to slab corruption because the klist iterator refers
to the prior element to get the next.

The solution is to make the klist take and release references to the
embedding object meaning that the embedding object won't be released until
the list relinquishes the reference to it.

(akpm: fast-track this because it's needed for the 2.6.13 scsi merge)

Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-07 18:26:54 -07:00
James Bottomley
d856f1e337 [PATCH] klist: fix klist to have the same klist_add semantics as list_head
at the moment, the list_head semantics are

list_add(node, head)

whereas current klist semantics are

klist_add(head, node)

This is bound to cause confusion, and since klist is the newcomer, it
should follow the list_head semantics.

I also added missing include guards to klist.h

Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2005-09-05 16:03:13 -07:00
Patrick Mochel
d62c0f9fd2 [PATCH] Driver core: Use klist_del() instead of klist_remove().
Use klist_del() instead of klist_remove() when unregistering devices.
This will prevent a deadlock when executing a recursive unregister using
device_for_each_child().

Signed-off-by Patrick Mochel <mochel@digitalimplant.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2005-06-29 22:48:05 -07:00
Yani Ioannou
54b6f35c99 [PATCH] Driver core: change device_attribute callbacks
This patch adds the device_attribute paramerter to the
device_attribute store and show sysfs callback functions, and passes a
reference to the attribute when the callbacks are called.

Signed-off-by: Yani Ioannou <yani.ioannou@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2005-06-20 15:15:31 -07:00
mochel@digitalimplant.org
36239577cf [PATCH] Use a klist for device child lists.
- Use klist iterator in device_for_each_child(), making it safe to use for
  removing devices.
- Remove unused list_to_dev() function.
- Kills all usage of devices_subsys.rwsem.

Signed-off-by: Patrick Mochel <mochel@digitalimplant.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2005-06-20 15:15:23 -07:00
mochel@digitalimplant.org
63c4f204ff [PATCH] Remove struct device::driver_list.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Mochel <mochel@digitalimplant.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2005-06-20 15:15:18 -07:00
mochel@digitalimplant.org
7dc35cdf69 [PATCH] Remove struct device::bus_list.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Mochel <mochel@digitalimplant.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2005-06-20 15:15:18 -07:00
mochel@digitalimplant.org
cb85b6f1cc [PATCH] Remove the unused device_find().
Signed-off-by: Patrick Mochel <mochel@digitalimplant.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2005-06-20 15:15:16 -07:00
mochel@digitalimplant.org
94e7b1c5ff [PATCH] Add a klist to struct device_driver for the devices bound to it.
- Use it in driver_for_each_device() instead of the regular list_head and stop using
  the bus's rwsem for protection.
- Use driver_for_each_device() in driver_detach() so we don't deadlock on the
  bus's rwsem.
- Remove ->devices.
- Move klist access and sysfs link access out from under device's semaphore, since
  they're synchronized through other means.

Signed-off-by: Patrick Mochel <mochel@digitalimplant.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2005-06-20 15:15:16 -07:00
mochel@digitalimplant.org
af70316af1 [PATCH] Add a semaphore to struct device to synchronize calls to its driver.
This adds a per-device semaphore that is taken before every call from the core to a
driver method. This prevents e.g. simultaneous calls to the ->suspend() or ->resume()
and ->probe() or ->release(), potentially saving a whole lot of headaches.

It also moves us a step closer to removing the bus rwsem, since it protects the fields
in struct device that are modified by the core.

Signed-off-by: Patrick Mochel <mochel@digitalimplant.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2005-06-20 15:15:12 -07:00