[GIT PATCH] Driver Core patches for 2.6.17

Greg KH
2006-06-21T19:48:43Z

Here are some driver core patches and fixes for 2.6.17. They contain the
following changes:
- documentation update
- add ABI documentation as discussed on lkml
- add ISA driver core framework
- add ability for devices to work like class devices
- let drivers get to tty class device pointer
- add /sys/hypervisor when needed
- some mutex conversions
- some MODALIAS and uevent fixes
- remove some unused exports
- make the dev_printk() messags be a bit more informative when
we do not have a driver attached to a device yet.

All of these patches have been in the -mm tree for a number of months.

Please pull from:
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-2.6.git/
or if master.kernel.org hasn't synced up yet:
master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-2.6.git/

Patches will be sent as a follow-on to this message to lkml for people
to see.

thanks,

greg k-h

Documentation/ABI/README | 77 ++++++++++++
Documentation/ABI/obsolete/devfs | 13 ++
Documentation/ABI/stable/syscalls | 10 +
Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-module | 30 ++++
Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class | 16 ++
Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices | 25 ++++
Documentation/isdn/README.gigaset | 7 -
Documentation/power/devices.txt | 90 --------------
block/genhd.c | 7 -
drivers/base/Kconfig | 4
drivers/base/Makefile | 2
drivers/base/attribute_container.c | 8 -
drivers/base/base.h | 9 +
drivers/base/bus.c | 28 +++-
drivers/base/class.c | 112 ++++++++++++------
drivers/base/core.c | 197 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
drivers/base/firmware_class.c | 22 +--
drivers/base/hypervisor.c | 19 +++
drivers/base/init.c | 1
drivers/base/isa.c | 180 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
drivers/base/platform.c | 35 +++++
drivers/base/power/Makefile | 3
drivers/base/power/suspend.c | 17 ++
drivers/base/sys.c | 51 ++++++++
drivers/block/cciss.c | 1
drivers/char/tty_io.c | 11 +
drivers/isdn/gigaset/common.c | 13 +-
drivers/isdn/gigaset/gigaset.h | 1
drivers/isdn/gigaset/interface.c | 10 +
drivers/isdn/gigaset/proc.c | 21 ++-
fs/partitions/check.c | 4
include/linux/device.h | 25 ++--
include/linux/isa.h | 28 ++++
include/linux/kobject.h | 2
include/linux/sysdev.h | 18 ++
include/linux/tty.h | 4
lib/kobject.c | 6
37 files changed, 907 insertions(+), 200 deletions(-)

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Alan Stern:
Driver Core: Make dev_info and friends print the bus name if there is no driver

David Brownell:
Driver Core: CONFIG_DEBUG_PM covers drivers/base/power too
platform_bus learns about modalias
remove duplication from Documentation/power/devices.txt
Driver core: PM_DEBUG device suspend() messages become informative

Greg Kroah-Hartman:
kobject: make people pay attention to kobject_add errors
Add kernel<->userspace ABI stability documentation
CCISS: add device symlink to the block cciss block devices in sysfs
Driver Core: remove unused exports
Driver core: change make_class_name() to take kobjects
Driver core: allow struct device to have a dev_t
Driver core: add proper symlinks for devices

Hansjoerg Lipp:
TTY: return class device pointer from tty_register_device()
i4l gigaset: move sysfs entry to tty class device

Kay Sievers:
Driver core: bus device event delay
Driver core: add generic "subsystem" link to all devices

Laura Garcia:
firmware_class: s/semaphores/mutexes

Michael Holzheu:
Driver Core: Add /sys/hypervisor when needed

Rene Herman:
Driver model: add ISA bus

Russell King:
Driver Core: Fix platform_device_add to use device_add

Shaohua Li:
Driver Core: Allow sysdev_class have attributes

Stephen Hemminger:
Driver core: class_device_add needs error checks