linux/drivers/base
Kay Sievers ca22e56deb driver-core: implement 'sysdev' functionality for regular devices and buses
All sysdev classes and sysdev devices will converted to regular devices
and buses to properly hook userspace into the event processing.

There is no interesting difference between a 'sysdev' and 'device' which
would justify to roll an entire own subsystem with different userspace
export semantics. Userspace relies on events and generic sysfs subsystem
infrastructure from sysdev devices, which are currently not properly
available.

Every converted sysdev class will create a regular device with the class
name in /sys/devices/system and all registered devices will becom a children
of theses devices.

For compatibility reasons, the sysdev class-wide attributes are created
at this parent device. (Do not copy that logic for anything new, subsystem-
wide properties belong to the subsystem, not to some fake parent device
created in /sys/devices.)

Every sysdev driver is implemented as a simple subsystem interface now,
and no longer called a driver.

After all sysdev classes are ported to regular driver core entities, the
sysdev implementation will be entirely removed from the kernel.

Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2011-12-14 14:29:38 -08:00
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power Merge branch 'modsplit-Oct31_2011' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulg/linux 2011-11-06 19:44:47 -08:00
regmap drivers/base: Add export.h for EXPORT_SYMBOL/THIS_MODULE as required. 2011-10-31 19:31:38 -04:00
attribute_container.c [SCSI] attirbute_container: Initialize sysfs attributes with sysfs_attr_init 2010-03-27 15:15:24 -04:00
base.h driver-core: implement 'sysdev' functionality for regular devices and buses 2011-12-14 14:29:38 -08:00
bus.c driver-core: implement 'sysdev' functionality for regular devices and buses 2011-12-14 14:29:38 -08:00
class.c driver-core: implement 'sysdev' functionality for regular devices and buses 2011-12-14 14:29:38 -08:00
core.c driver-core: implement 'sysdev' functionality for regular devices and buses 2011-12-14 14:29:38 -08:00
cpu.c drivers/base/cpu.c: fix the output from /sys/devices/system/cpu/offline 2010-05-21 09:37:28 -07:00
dd.c drivers: base: print rejected matches with DEBUG_DRIVER 2011-09-26 16:21:15 -07:00
devres.c base/devres.c: quiet sparse noise about context imbalance 2011-08-22 14:12:24 -07:00
devtmpfs.c devtmpfsd: fix task state handling 2011-11-15 16:07:39 -08:00
dma-coherent.c drivers/base: dma-coherent.c is a module and needs module.h 2011-10-31 19:31:38 -04:00
dma-mapping.c drivers/base: Add export.h for EXPORT_SYMBOL/THIS_MODULE as required. 2011-10-31 19:31:38 -04:00
driver.c include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h 2010-03-30 22:02:32 +09:00
firmware_class.c firmware loader: allow builtin firmware load even if usermodehelper is disabled 2011-08-24 15:55:30 -07:00
firmware.c firmware: change firmware_kset to firmware_kobj 2008-01-24 20:40:23 -08:00
hypervisor.c drivers/base: Add export.h for EXPORT_SYMBOL/THIS_MODULE as required. 2011-10-31 19:31:38 -04:00
init.c driver-core: implement 'sysdev' functionality for regular devices and buses 2011-12-14 14:29:38 -08:00
isa.c dma-mapping: replace all DMA_24BIT_MASK macro with DMA_BIT_MASK(24) 2009-04-07 08:31:12 -07:00
Kconfig Merge branch 'driver-core-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core-2.6 2011-07-25 23:06:24 -07:00
Makefile topology: Provide CPU topology in sysfs in !SMP configurations 2011-11-26 20:12:47 -08:00
map.c
memory.c mm: memory hotplug: Check if pages are correctly reserved on a per-section basis 2011-10-18 14:01:24 -07:00
module.c driver core: module.c: Use kasprintf 2010-05-21 09:37:29 -07:00
node.c mm: per-node vmstat: show proper vmstats 2011-05-25 08:39:07 -07:00
platform.c drivers_base: make argument to platform_device_register_full const 2011-12-09 16:23:49 -08:00
sys.c driver-core: implement 'sysdev' functionality for regular devices and buses 2011-12-14 14:29:38 -08:00
syscore.c PM: Reintroduce dropped call to check_wakeup_irqs 2011-07-11 10:51:49 +02:00
topology.c topology/sysfs: Provide book id and siblings attributes 2010-09-09 20:41:25 +02:00
transport_class.c drivers/base: transport_class explicitly requires EXPORT_SYMBOL 2011-10-31 19:31:15 -04:00