[GIT PATCH] Driver Core fixes for 2.6.19-rc2

Greg KH
2006-10-18T20:06:46Z

Here are some driver core and sysfs fixes for 2.6.19-rc2.

All of these patches have been in the -mm tree for a quite a while.

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/HOWTO | 20 +++++
Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt | 2 -
drivers/base/bus.c | 108 +++++++++++++++++-----------
drivers/base/class.c | 5 +
drivers/base/core.c | 26 +++++--
drivers/base/dd.c | 4 +
drivers/base/dmapool.c | 13 +++
drivers/base/topology.c | 3 -
fs/sysfs/file.c | 7 --
9 files changed, 123 insertions(+), 65 deletions(-)

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Akinobu Mita:
driver core: kmalloc() failure check in driver_probe_device

Alan Stern:
Driver core: Don't ignore error returns from probing

Cornelia Huck:
driver core fixes: sysfs_create_link() retval check in class.c
driver core fixes: bus_add_attrs() retval check
driver core fixes: bus_add_device() cleanup on error
driver core fixes: device_add() cleanup on error
driver core fixes: device_create_file() retval check in dmapool.c
driver core fixes: sysfs_create_group() retval in topology.c

Diego Calleja:
HOWTO: bug report addition

Dominik Brodowski:
Documentation: feature-removal-schedule typo

Duncan Sands:
Driver core: plug device probe memory leak

Hidetoshi Seto:
sysfs: remove duplicated dput in sysfs_update_file
sysfs: update obsolete comment in sysfs_update_file

Jeff Garzik:
Driver core: bus: remove indentation level

Jesper Juhl:
Driver core: Don't leak 'old_class_name' in drivers/base/core.c::device_rename()

Matthew Wilcox:
Fix dev_printk() is now GPL-only