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Alan Stern
718efa64e3 usbcore: move usb_autosuspend_work
This patch (as864) moves the work routine for USB autosuspend from one
source file to another.  This permits the removal of one whole global
symbol (!) and should smooth the way for more changes in the future.

Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-04-27 13:28:34 -07:00
Pete Zaitcev
64e35d9236 libusual: change block scope variable to function scope
Someone changed the code to kthread and used his style instead of mine.

The problem with the block variables is that they provoke shadowing,
which is actually exactly what has happened in my other tree which
has the class patch.

Signed-off-by: Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-04-27 13:28:34 -07:00
Pete Zaitcev
643616e678 ub: Bind to first endpoint, not to last
The usb-storage switched to binding to first endpoint recently. Apparently,
there are devices out there with extra endpoints. It is perfectly legal.

Signed-off-by: Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-04-27 13:28:34 -07:00
Oliver Neukum
c4cabd28c7 USB: cdc-acm: export parsed capabilities through sysfs
this patch exports the attributes cdc-acm knows about a device through sysfs.

Signed-off-by: Oliver Neukum <oneukum@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-04-27 13:28:33 -07:00
Oliver Neukum
bb74782e62 USB: additional structure from cdc spec
this adds another structure for CDC devices to cdc.h.

Signed-off-by: Oliver Neukum <oneukum@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-04-27 13:28:33 -07:00
Pete Zaitcev
f1c9e30b5e usbmon: Extended text API
This patch adds a new text API, codenamed '1u', which captures more URB
fields than old '1t' interface did. Also the '1u' text API is compatible
with the future "bus zero" extension.

Signed-off-by: Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-04-27 13:28:33 -07:00
Oliver Neukum
2e85c91e2e USB: kill BKL in usblcd
this patch removes usage of BKL from usblcd, which got it from the old
skeleton driver.

Signed-off-by: Oliver Neukum <oneukum@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-04-27 13:28:33 -07:00
Oliver Neukum
5d9b89b33f USB: kill BKL in skeleton driver
Iet's kill BKL where we can. This is relative to the last patch to the
skeleton driver.

Signed-off-by: Oliver Neukum <oneukum@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-04-27 13:28:33 -07:00
Oliver Neukum
ba35e02bdc USB: fix skeleton driver
compilation of the skeleton driver is currently broken. It doesn't compile.
So while I am it:

- fix typo
- add comments to answer common questions
- actually allow autosuspend in the driver struct
- increase paralellism by restricting code under locks

Signed-off-by: Oliver Neukum <oneukum@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-04-27 13:28:33 -07:00
Milan Svoboda
08a78cbb41 USB: pxa2xx_udc: fix hardcoded irq number
This patch changes last use of hardcoded number of irq to
use platfrom_get_irq.

Signed-off-by: Milan Svoboda <msvoboda@ra.rockwell.com>
Acked-by: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-04-27 13:28:33 -07:00
David Brownell
34ebcd2823 pxa2xx_udc: cleanups, use platform_get_irq
Make the pxa2xx_udc driver fetch its IRQ from platform resources
rather than using compile-time constants, so that it works properly
on IXP4xx systems not just PXA21x/25x/26x.


Other updates:
 - Do that using platform_get_irq()
 - Switch to platform_driver_probe()
 - Handle device_add() errors
 - Remove "function" sysfs attribute and its potential errors
 - Whitespace cleanups

Signed-off-by: Milan Svoboda <msvoboda@ra.rockwell.com>
Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-04-27 13:28:33 -07:00
Norihiko Tomiyama
c51e9749ab Adding PID of SHARP S01SH for ipaq.c
I write a patch adding support "SHARP EMONE(S01SH)" device for ipaq.c.
EMONE is a PDA with built-in HSDPA function.



From: Norihiko Tomiyama <norihiko.tomiyama@ctc-g.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-04-27 13:28:33 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
d868772fff Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-2.6
* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-2.6: (46 commits)
  dev_dbg: check dev_dbg() arguments
  drivers/base/attribute_container.c: use mutex instead of binary semaphore
  mod_sysfs_setup() doesn't return errno when kobject_add_dir() failure occurs
  s2ram: add arch irq disable/enable hooks
  define platform wakeup hook, use in pci_enable_wake()
  security: prevent permission checking of file removal via sysfs_remove_group()
  device_schedule_callback() needs a module reference
  s390: cio: Delay uevents for subchannels
  sysfs: bin.c printk fix
  Driver core: use mutex instead of semaphore in DMA pool handler
  driver core: bus_add_driver should return an error if no bus
  debugfs: Add debugfs_create_u64()
  the overdue removal of the mount/umount uevents
  kobject: Comment and warning fixes to kobject.c
  Driver core: warn when userspace writes to the uevent file in a non-supported way
  Driver core: make uevent-environment available in uevent-file
  kobject core: remove rwsem from struct subsystem
  qeth: Remove usage of subsys.rwsem
  PHY: remove rwsem use from phy core
  IEEE1394: remove rwsem use from ieee1394 core
  ...
2007-04-27 12:58:54 -07:00
Dan Williams
404d5b185b dev_dbg: check dev_dbg() arguments
Duplicate what Zach Brown did for pr_debug in commit
8b2a1fd1b3

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix a couple of things which broke]
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-04-27 10:57:34 -07:00
Matthias Kaehlcke
61a2f59af6 drivers/base/attribute_container.c: use mutex instead of binary semaphore
use mutex instead of binary semaphore in
drivers/base/attribute_container.c

Signed-off-by: Matthias Kaehlcke <matthias.kaehlcke@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-04-27 10:57:34 -07:00
Akinobu Mita
240936e18b mod_sysfs_setup() doesn't return errno when kobject_add_dir() failure occurs
mod_sysfs_setup() doesn't return an errno when kobject_add_dir() for module
"holders" directory fails.  So caller of mod_sysfs_setup() will keep going
and get oops.

Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-04-27 10:57:34 -07:00
Johannes Berg
a53c46dc82 s2ram: add arch irq disable/enable hooks
After some more discussion this patch replaces it:

From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Subject: suspend: add arch irq disable/enable hooks

For powermac, we need to do some things between suspending devices and
device_power_off, for example setting the decrementer. This patch
allows architectures to define arch_s2ram_{en,dis}able_irqs in their
asm/suspend.h to have control over this step.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-04-27 10:57:33 -07:00
David Brownell
075c177152 define platform wakeup hook, use in pci_enable_wake()
This defines a platform hook to enable/disable a device as a wakeup event
source.  It's initially for use with ACPI, but more generally it could be used
whenever enable_irq_wake()/disable_irq_wake() don't suffice.

The hook is called -- if available -- inside pci_enable_wake(); and the
semantics of that call are enhanced so that support for PCI PME# is no longer
needed.  It can now work for devices with "legacy PCI PM", when platform
support allows it.  (That support would use some board-specific signal for for
the same purpose as PME#.)

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: Make it compile with CONFIG_PM=n]
Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com>
Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-04-27 10:57:33 -07:00
James Morris
057f6c019f security: prevent permission checking of file removal via sysfs_remove_group()
Prevent permission checking from being performed when the kernel wants to
unconditionally remove a sysfs group, by introducing an kernel-only variant
of lookup_one_len(), lookup_one_len_kern().

Additionally, as sysfs_remove_group() does not check the return value of
the lookup before using it, a BUG_ON has been added to pinpoint the cause
of any problems potentially caused by this (and as a form of annotation).

Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Cc: Nagendra Singh Tomar <nagendra_tomar@adaptec.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Cc: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov>
Cc: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-04-27 10:57:33 -07:00
Alan Stern
523ded71de device_schedule_callback() needs a module reference
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>
2007-04-27 10:57:32 -07:00
Cornelia Huck
fa1a8c23eb s390: cio: Delay uevents for subchannels
We often have the situation that we register a subchannel and start device
recognition, only to find out that the device is not usable after all, which
triggers an unregister of the subchannel.  This often happens on hundreds of
subchannels on a LPAR, leading to a storm of events which aren't of any use. 
Therefore, use uevent_suppress to delay the KOBJ_ADD uevent for a subchannel
until we know that its ccw_device is to be registered.

Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Cc: Eric Rannaud <eric.rannaud@gmail.com>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-04-27 10:57:32 -07:00
Andrew Morton
45cd8d8e1e sysfs: bin.c printk fix
fs/sysfs/bin.c: In function 'read':
fs/sysfs/bin.c:77: warning: format '%zd' expects type 'signed size_t', but argument 4 has type 'int'



Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-04-27 10:57:32 -07:00
Matthias Kaehlcke
b2366d68d9 Driver core: use mutex instead of semaphore in DMA pool handler
the DMA pool handler uses a semaphore as mutex. use the mutex API
instead of the (binary) semaphore

Signed-off-by: Matthias Kaehlcke <matthias.kaehlcke@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-04-27 10:57:32 -07:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman
4f6e1945fe driver core: bus_add_driver should return an error if no bus
As pointed out by Dave Jones.

Cc: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-04-27 10:57:32 -07:00
Michael Ellerman
8447891fe8 debugfs: Add debugfs_create_u64()
I went to use this the other day, only to find it didn't exist.

It's a straight copy of the debugfs u32 code, then s/u32/u64/. A quick
test shows it seems to be working.

Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-04-27 10:57:31 -07:00
Adrian Bunk
3106d46f51 the overdue removal of the mount/umount uevents
This patch contains the overdue removal of the mount/umount uevents.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-04-27 10:57:31 -07:00
Eric W. Biederman
2753133eb3 kobject: Comment and warning fixes to kobject.c
This dots some i's and crosses some t's after left over from when
kobject_kset_add_dir was built from kobject_add_dir. 

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-04-27 10:57:31 -07:00
Kay Sievers
22af74f3b2 Driver core: warn when userspace writes to the uevent file in a non-supported way
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>
2007-04-27 10:57:31 -07:00
Kay Sievers
16574dccd8 Driver core: make uevent-environment available in uevent-file
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>
2007-04-27 10:57:31 -07:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman
4628803062 kobject core: remove rwsem from struct subsystem
It isn't used at all by the driver core anymore, and the few usages of
it within the kernel have now all been fixed as most of them were using
it incorrectly.  So remove it.

Now the whole struct subsys can be removed from the system, but that's
for a later patch...

Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-04-27 10:57:31 -07:00
Cornelia Huck
2f66858a0a qeth: Remove usage of subsys.rwsem
the current driver tree contains the removal of subsys.rwsem.
Unfortunately, this breaks qeth. However, it should be no problem to
fix the walking of the devices for /proc/qeth:

No need to take subsys.rwsem during walking the devices,
driver_find_devices() should already suffice.

Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-04-27 10:57:31 -07:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman
87aebe078e PHY: remove rwsem use from phy core
The subsystem rwsem is not used by the driver core at all, so the use of
it in the phy code doesn't make any sense.  They might possibly
want to use a local lock, but I am unsure about that.

Cc: netdev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-04-27 10:57:31 -07:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman
a2a0f74dc1 IEEE1394: remove rwsem use from ieee1394 core
The subsystem rwsem is not used by the driver core at all, so the use of
it in the ieee1394 code doesn't make any sense.  They might possibly
want to use a local lock, but as most of these operations are already
protected by a local lock, it really doesn't look like it would be
needed.

Cc: Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>
Cc: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
Cc: linux1394-devel <linux1394-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-04-27 10:57:30 -07:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman
c401110186 IDE: remove rwsem use from ide-proc core
The subsystem rwsem is not used by the driver core at all, so the use of
it in the ide-proc code of it doesn't make any sense.  Perhaps a local
lock might be needed, but I do not really think so.

Cc: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
Cc: linux ide <linux-ide@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-04-27 10:57:30 -07:00
Dmitry Torokhov
79580057de Input: gameport - do not touch bus's rwsem
The subsystem rwsem is not used by the driver core at all, so there is
no point in trying to access it.

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-04-27 10:57:30 -07:00
Dmitry Torokhov
70f256fda1 Input: serio - do not touch bus's rwsem
The subsystem rwsem is not used by the driver core at all, so there is
no point in trying to access it.

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-04-27 10:57:30 -07:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman
75f1115c9b PNP: stop using the subsystem rwsem
The rwsem is not used to protect anything, so the use of it by the PNP
subsystem isn't really useful, and it's doubtful if it really did anything or
not.  So I've removed it.

Cc: Adam Belay <ambx1@neo.rr.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-04-27 10:57:30 -07:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman
341487a837 USB: remove use of the bus rwsem, as it doesn't really protect anything.
The driver core stopped using the rwsem a long time ago, yet the USB
core still grabbed the lock, thinking it protected something.  This
patch removes that useless use.

Cc: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Cc: Oliver Neukum <oneukum@suse.de>
Cc: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>
Cc: linux-usb-devel <linux-usb-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-04-27 10:57:30 -07:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman
b7bb125dc3 SCSI: use the proper semaphore to protect the class lists
SCSI was using the incorrect lock to protect walking the list of all
devices in the class.  This patch fixes this.

Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-04-27 10:57:30 -07:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman
49f019d66d Driver core: remove use of rwsem
This lock is never used by the rest of the driver core, so the fact that
we are grabbing it here means it isn't correct...

Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-04-27 10:57:30 -07:00
Cornelia Huck
88db4721d4 kobject: kobject_add() reference leak
We leak a reference if we attempt to add a kobject with no name.

Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-04-27 10:57:30 -07:00
John Anthony Kazos Jr
14193fb91a Kobject: kobject_uevent.c: Collapse unnecessary loop nesting (top_kobj)
Collapses a do..while() loop within an if() to a simple while() loop for 
simplicity and readability.

Signed-off-by: John Anthony Kazos Jr. <jakj@j-a-k-j.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-04-27 10:57:29 -07:00
Dmitry Torokhov
f89cbc399e Driver core: add suspend() and resume() to struct device_type
Driver core: add suspend() and resume() to struct device_type

In cases when there are devices of different types in the same class
we can't use class's implementation of suspend and resume methods and
we need to add them to struct device_type instead.

Also fix error handling in resume code (we should not try to call
class's resume method iof bus's resume method for the device failed.

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-04-27 10:57:29 -07:00
Eric Rannaud
bf62456eb9 uevent: use add_uevent_var() instead of open coding it
Make use of add_uevent_var() instead of (often incorrectly) open coding it.

Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Eric Rannaud <eric.rannaud@gmail.com>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
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>
2007-04-27 10:57:29 -07:00
Cornelia Huck
bdc4960a0b Driver core: switch firmware_class to uevent_suppress.
Use uevent_suppress instead of returning an error code in
firmware_uevent(). Get rid of the now unneeded FW_STATUS_READY
and FW_STATUS_READY_NOHOTPLUG.

Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-04-27 10:57:29 -07:00
Cornelia Huck
83b5fb4cce Driver core: suppress uevents via filter
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>
2007-04-27 10:57:29 -07:00
Jean Tourrilhes
ca2f37dbc5 Driver core: notify userspace of network device renames
Provide rename event for when we rename network devices.

Signed-off-by: Jean Tourrilhes <jt@hpl.hp.com>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-04-27 10:57:29 -07:00
Oliver Neukum
1b0b3b9980 kref: fix CPU ordering with respect to krefs
some atomic operations are only atomic, not ordered. Thus a CPU is allowed
to reorder memory references to an object to before the reference is
obtained. This fixes it.

Signed-off-by: Oliver Neukum <oneukum@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-04-27 10:57:29 -07:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman
74e9f5fa15 Driver core: remove unneeded completion from driver release path
The completion in the driver release path is due to ancient history in
the _very_ early 2.5 days when we were not tracking the module reference
count of attributes.  It is not needed at all and can be removed.

Note, we now have an empty release function for the driver structure.
This is due to the fact that drivers are statically allocated in the
system at this point in time, something which I want to change in the
future.  But remember, drivers are really code, which is reference
counted by the module, unlike devices, which are data and _must_ be
reference counted properly in order to work correctly.


Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-04-27 10:57:29 -07:00
Cornelia Huck
c6a46696f9 driver core: don't fail attaching the device if it cannot be bound
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>
2007-04-27 10:57:29 -07:00