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Tejun Heo 7b595756ec sysfs: kill unnecessary attribute->owner
sysfs is now completely out of driver/module lifetime game.  After
deletion, a sysfs node doesn't access anything outside sysfs proper,
so there's no reason to hold onto the attribute owners.  Note that
often the wrong modules were accounted for as owners leading to
accessing removed modules.

This patch kills now unnecessary attribute->owner.  Note that with
this change, userland holding a sysfs node does not prevent the
backing module from being unloaded.

For more info regarding lifetime rule cleanup, please read the
following message.

  http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/510293

(tweaked by Greg to not delete the field just yet, to make it easier to
merge things properly.)

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Cc: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-07-11 16:09:06 -07:00
Ralf Baechle 3367b994fe <linux/sysdev.h> needs to include <linux/module.h>
sysdev.h uses THIS_MODULE so should include <linux/module.h>.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: couple of fixes]
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-08 11:15:05 -07:00
Olof Johansson 7583b6e424 [POWERPC] Introduce _SYSDEV_ATTR
Introduce _SYSDEV_ATTR(), to be used to just define the struct, and not a
named variable with the attribute. Useful for arrays of sysdev_attributes.

Signed-off-by: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2007-02-07 14:03:19 +11:00
Shaohua Li 670dd90d81 [PATCH] Driver Core: Allow sysdev_class have attributes
allow sysdev_class adding attribute. Next patch will use the new API to
add an attribute under /sys/device/system/cpu/.

Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-06-21 12:40:48 -07:00
Pavel Machek 438510f6f0 [PATCH] pm_message_t: more fixes in common and i386
I thought I'm done with fixing u32 vs.  pm_message_t ...  unfortunately
that turned out not to be the case as Russel King pointed out.  Here are
fixes for Documentation and common code (mainly system devices).

Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-04-16 15:25:24 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 1da177e4c3 Linux-2.6.12-rc2
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!
2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00