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David S. Miller 08abe18af1 Merge branch 'master' of /home/davem/src/GIT/linux-2.6/
Conflicts:
	drivers/net/wimax/i2400m/usb-notif.c
2009-03-26 15:23:24 -07:00
Arjan van de Ven f520360d93 kobject: don't block for each kobject_uevent
Right now, the kobject_uevent code blocks for each uevent that's being
generated, due to using (for hystoric reasons) UHM_WAIT_EXEC as flag to
call_usermode_helper().  Specifically, the effect is that each uevent
that is being sent causes the code to wake up keventd, then block until
keventd has processed the work. Needless to say, this happens many times
during the system boot.

This patches changes that to UHN_NO_WAIT (brilliant name for a constant
btw) so that we only schedule the work to fire the uevent message, but
do not wait for keventd to process the work.

This removes one of the bottlenecks during boot; each one of them is
only a small effect, but the sum of them does add up.

[Note, distros that need this are broken, they should be setting
CONFIG_UEVENT_HELPER_PATH to "", that way this code path will never be
excuted at all -- gregkh]

Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-03-24 16:38:26 -07:00
Ming Lei f67f129e51 Driver core: implement uevent suppress in kobject
This patch implements uevent suppress in kobject and removes it
from struct device, based on the following ideas:

1,Uevent sending should be one attribute of kobject, so suppressing it
in kobject layer is more natural than in device layer. By this way,
we can do it for other objects embedded with kobject.

2,It may save several bytes for each instance of struct device.(On my
omap3(32bit ARM) based box, can save 8bytes per device object)

This patch also introduces dev_set|get_uevent_suppress() helpers to
set and query uevent_suppress attribute in case to help kobject
as private part of struct device in future.

[This version is against the latest driver-core patch set of Greg,please
ignore the last version.]

Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <tom.leiming@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-03-24 16:38:26 -07:00
Pablo Neira Ayuso ff491a7334 netlink: change return-value logic of netlink_broadcast()
Currently, netlink_broadcast() reports errors to the caller if no
messages at all were delivered:

1) If, at least, one message has been delivered correctly, returns 0.
2) Otherwise, if no messages at all were delivered due to skb_clone()
   failure, return -ENOBUFS.
3) Otherwise, if there are no listeners, return -ESRCH.

With this patch, the caller knows if the delivery of any of the
messages to the listeners have failed:

1) If it fails to deliver any message (for whatever reason), return
   -ENOBUFS.
2) Otherwise, if all messages were delivered OK, returns 0.
3) Otherwise, if no listeners, return -ESRCH.

In the current ctnetlink code and in Netfilter in general, we can add
reliable logging and connection tracking event delivery by dropping the
packets whose events were not successfully delivered over Netlink. Of
course, this option would be settable via /proc as this approach reduces
performance (in terms of filtered connections per seconds by a stateful
firewall) but providing reliable logging and event delivery (for
conntrackd) in return.

This patch also changes some clients of netlink_broadcast() that
may report ENOBUFS errors via printk. This error handling is not
of any help. Instead, the userspace daemons that are listening to
those netlink messages should resync themselves with the kernel-side
if they hit ENOBUFS.

BTW, netlink_broadcast() clients include those that call
cn_netlink_send(), nlmsg_multicast() and genlmsg_multicast() since they
internally call netlink_broadcast() and return its error value.

Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-02-05 23:56:36 -08:00
Ming Lei e0d7bf5d58 kobject: return the result of uevent sending by netlink
We need to return the result of uevent sending by netlink
to caller, when uevent_helper is disabled and CONFIG_NET
is defined.

Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <tom.leiming@gmail.com>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-01-06 10:44:31 -08:00
Tejun Heo c65b9145f4 uevent: don't pass envp_ext[] as format string in kobject_uevent_env()
kobject_uevent_env() uses envp_ext[] as verbatim format string which
can cause problems ranging from unexpectedly mangled string to oops if
a string in envp_ext[] contains substring which can be interpreted as
format.  Fix it.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-01-06 10:44:31 -08:00
Arjan van de Ven 5cd2b459d3 Use WARN() in lib/
Use WARN() instead of a printk+WARN_ON() pair; this way the message becomes
part of the warning section for better reporting/collection.  In addition, one
of the if() clauses collapes into the WARN() entirely now.

Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-26 12:00:07 -07:00
Wang Chen 0ad1d6f37c kobject: Transmit return value of call_usermodehelper() to caller
kobject_uevent_env() drops the return value of call_usermodehelper().
It will make upper caller, such as dm_send_uevents(), to lose error
information.

BTW, Previously kobject_uevent_env() transmitted return of
call_usermodehelper() to callers, but
commit	5f123fbd80
"[PATCH] merge kobject_uevent and kobject_hotplug" removed it.

Signed-off-by: Wang Chen <wangchen@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-07-21 21:55:00 -07:00
Harvey Harrison 810304db75 lib: replace remaining __FUNCTION__ occurrences
__FUNCTION__ is gcc specific, use __func__

Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-04-30 08:29:54 -07:00
David S. Miller 3bb5da3837 Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 2008-04-03 14:33:42 -07:00
Denis V. Lunev a4aa834a91 [NETNS]: Declare init_net even without CONFIG_NET defined.
This does not look good, but there is no other choice. The compilation
without CONFIG_NET is broken and can not be fixed with ease.

After that there is no need for the following commits:
1567ca7eec
3edf8fa5cc
2d38f9a4f8

Revert them.

Signed-off-by: Denis V. Lunev <den@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-04-03 13:04:33 -07:00
Mark Lord a9edadbf79 fix uevent action-string regression
Mark Lord wrote:
>
> On boot, syslog is flooded with "uevent: unsupported action-string;" messages.
..
> Mar 28 14:43:29 shrimp kernel: tty ptyqd: uevent: unsupported
> action-string; this will be ignored in a future kernel version
> Mar 28 14:43:29 shrimp kernel: tty ptyqe: uevent: unsupported
> action-string; this will be ignored in a future kernel version
> Mar 28 14:43:29 shrimp kernel: tty ptyqf: uevent: unsupported
> action-string; this will be ignored in a future kernel version
> Mar 28 14:43:29 shrimp kernel: tty ptyr0: uevent: unsupported
> action-string; this will be ignored in a future kernel version
..

These messages are a regression compared with 2.6.24, which did not
flood the syslog with them.

The actual underlying problem was introduced in 2.6.23, when somebody
made the string parsing no longer accept nul-terminated strings as a
valid input to store_uevent().

Eg.  "add\0" was valid prior to 2.6.23, where the code regressed to
require "add" without the '\0'.

This patch fixes the 2.6.23 / 2.6.24 regressions, by having the code
once again tolerate the trailing '\0', if present.

According to GregKH, this mainly affects older Ubuntu systems, such as
the one I have here that requires this fix.

Signed-off-by: Mark Lord <mlord@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-03-30 14:55:49 -07:00
Denis V. Lunev 2d38f9a4f8 [NETNS]: Do no include NET related headers if CONFIG_NET is not set.
This fix broken compilation for 'allnoconfig'. This was introduced by
Introduced by commit 1218854afa ("[NET]
NETNS: Omit seq_net_private->net without CONFIG_NET_NS.")

Signed-off-by: Denis V. Lunev <den@openvz.org>
Acked-by: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-03-27 14:26:30 -07:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman e374a2bfeb Kobject: fix coding style issues in kobject c files
Clean up the kobject.c and kobject_uevent.c files to follow the
proper coding style rules.

Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-01-24 21:59:04 -08:00
Kay Sievers 0f4dafc056 Kobject: auto-cleanup on final unref
We save the current state in the object itself, so we can do proper
cleanup when the last reference is dropped.

If the initial reference is dropped, the object will be removed from
sysfs if needed, if an "add" event was sent, "remove" will be send, and
the allocated resources are released.

This allows us to clean up some driver core usage as well as allowing us
to do other such changes to the rest of the kernel.

Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-01-24 20:40:39 -08:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman 9f66fa2a46 kobject: clean up debugging messages
The kobject debugging messages are a mess.  This provides a unified
message that makes them actually useful.

The format for new kobject debug messages should be:
	kobject: 'KOBJECT_NAME' (ADDRESS): FUNCTION_NAME: message.\n

Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-01-24 20:40:26 -08:00
Robert P. J. Day 3a4fa0a25d Fix misspellings of "system", "controller", "interrupt" and "necessary".
Fix the various misspellings of "system", controller", "interrupt" and
"[un]necessary".

Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@mindspring.com>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
2007-10-19 23:10:43 +02:00
Kay Sievers ccd490a3c3 Driver core: kerneldoc - kobject_uevent_env is not "usually KOBJ_MOVE"
Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-10-12 14:51:06 -07:00
Kay Sievers 5c5daf657c Driver core: exclude kobject_uevent.c for !CONFIG_HOTPLUG
Move uevent specific logic from the core into kobject_uevent.c, which
does no longer require to link the unused string array if hotplug
is not compiled in.

Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-10-12 14:51:06 -07:00
Kay Sievers 6a8d8abb6e Driver core: add CONFIG_UEVENT_HELPER_PATH
The kernel creates a process for every event that is send, even when
there is no binary it could execute.  We are needlessly creating around
200-300 failing processes during early bootup, until we have the chance
to disable it from userspace.

This change allows us to disable /sbin/hotplug entirely, if you want to,
by setting UEVENT_HELPER_PATH="" in the kernel config.

Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-10-12 14:51:01 -07:00
Kay Sievers 7eff2e7a8b Driver core: change add_uevent_var to use a struct
This changes the uevent buffer functions to use a struct instead of a
long list of parameters. It does no longer require the caller to do the
proper buffer termination and size accounting, which is currently wrong
in some places. It fixes a known bug where parts of the uevent
environment are overwritten because of wrong index calculations.

Many thanks to Mathieu Desnoyers for finding bugs and improving the
error handling.

Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
Cc: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-10-12 14:51:01 -07:00
Eric W. Biederman b4b510290b [NET]: Support multiple network namespaces with netlink
Each netlink socket will live in exactly one network namespace,
this includes the controlling kernel sockets.

This patch updates all of the existing netlink protocols
to only support the initial network namespace.  Request
by clients in other namespaces will get -ECONREFUSED.
As they would if the kernel did not have the support for
that netlink protocol compiled in.

As each netlink protocol is updated to be multiple network
namespace safe it can register multiple kernel sockets
to acquire a presence in the rest of the network namespaces.

The implementation in af_netlink is a simple filter implementation
at hash table insertion and hash table look up time.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10 16:49:09 -07:00
Cornelia Huck cd030c4cb3 kobject: fix link error when CONFIG_HOTPLUG is disabled
Leaving kobject_actions[] in kobject_uevent.c, but putting it outside
the #ifdef looks indeed like the best solution to me. This way, we
avoid adding #ifdef CONFIG_HOTPLUG into core.c, when all other
functions called do not need such a thing.


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>
2007-07-30 14:25:11 -07:00
Kay Sievers 60a96a5956 Driver core: accept all valid action-strings in uevent-trigger
This allows the uevent file to handle any type of uevent action to be
triggered by userspace instead of just the "add" uevent.


Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-07-18 15:49:49 -07:00
Jeremy Fitzhardinge 86313c488a usermodehelper: Tidy up waiting
Rather than using a tri-state integer for the wait flag in
call_usermodehelper_exec, define a proper enum, and use that.  I've
preserved the integer values so that any callers I've missed should
still work OK.

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com>
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
Cc: Joel Becker <joel.becker@oracle.com>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Cc: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
2007-07-18 08:47:40 -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
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
Kay Sievers 864062457a driver core: fix namespace issue with devices assigned to classes
- uses a kset in "struct class" to keep track of all directories
    belonging to this class
  - merges with the /sys/devices/virtual logic.
  - removes the namespace-dir if the last member of that class
    leaves the directory.

There may be locking or refcounting fixes left, I stopped when it seemed
to work with network and sound modules. :)

From: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-04-27 10:57:28 -07:00
Patrick McHardy af65bdfce9 [NETLINK]: Switch cb_lock spinlock to mutex and allow to override it
Switch cb_lock to mutex and allow netlink kernel users to override it
with a subsystem specific mutex for consistent locking in dump callbacks.
All netlink_dump_start users have been audited not to rely on any
side-effects of the previously used spinlock.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-25 22:29:03 -07:00
Aneesh Kumar K.V 542cfce6f3 kobject: kobject_uevent() returns manageable value
Since kobject_uevent() function does not return an integer value to
indicate if its operation was completed with success or not, it is worth
changing it in order to report a proper status (success or error) instead
of returning void.

[randy.dunlap@oracle.com: Fix inline kobject functions]
Cc: Mauricio Lin <mauriciolin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-12-20 10:56:44 -08:00
Cornelia Huck 8a82472f86 driver core: Introduce device_move(): move a device to a new parent.
Provide a function device_move() to move a device to a new parent device. Add
auxilliary functions kobject_move() and sysfs_move_dir().
kobject_move() generates a new uevent of type KOBJ_MOVE, containing the
previous path (DEVPATH_OLD) in addition to the usual values. For this, a new
interface kobject_uevent_env() is created that allows to add further
environmental data to the uevent at the kobject layer.

Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-12-01 14:52:01 -08:00
Kristen Carlson Accardi 5669021e40 PCI: docking station: remove dock uevents
Remove uevent dock notifications.  There are no consumers
of these events at present, and uevents are likely not the
correct way to send this type of event anyway.

Until I get some kind of idea if anyone in userspace cares
about dock events, I will just not send any.

Signed-off-by: Kristen Carlson Accardi <kristen.c.accardi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-08-03 13:20:06 -07:00
Kristen Accardi a6a888b3c2 KEVENT: add new uevent for dock
so that userspace can be notified of dock and undock events.

Signed-off-by: Kristen Carlson Accardi <kristen.c.accardi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2006-06-27 01:24:15 -04:00
Kay Sievers 4d17ffda33 [PATCH] Kobject: fix build error
This fixes a build error for various odd combinations of CONFIG_HOTPLUG
and CONFIG_NET.

Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Cc: Nigel Cunningham <ncunningham@cyclades.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-04-27 13:08:56 -07:00
Jun'ichi Nomura 51107301b6 [PATCH] kobject: fix build error if CONFIG_SYSFS=n
Moving uevent_seqnum and uevent_helper to kobject_uevent.c
because they are used even if CONFIG_SYSFS=n
while kernel/ksysfs.c is built only if CONFIG_SYSFS=y,

Signed-off-by: Jun'ichi Nomura <j-nomura@ce.jp.nec.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-03-20 13:42:57 -08:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman fa675765af Revert mount/umount uevent removal
This change reverts the 033b96fd30 commit
from Kay Sievers that removed the mount/umount uevents from the kernel.
Some older versions of HAL still depend on these events to detect when a
new device has been mounted.  These events are not correctly emitted,
and are broken by design, and so, should not be relied upon by any
future program.  Instead, the /proc/mounts file should be polled to
properly detect this kind of event.

A feature-removal-schedule.txt entry has been added, noting when this
interface will be removed from the kernel.

Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-02-22 09:39:02 -08:00
Benjamin Herrenschmidt d87499ed1a [PATCH] Fix uevent buffer overflow in input layer
The buffer used for kobject uevent is too small for some of the events generated
by the input layer. Bump it to 2k.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-02-06 12:17:18 -08:00
akpm@osdl.org f743ca5e10 [PATCH] kobject_uevent CONFIG_NET=n fix
lib/lib.a(kobject_uevent.o)(.text+0x25f): In function `kobject_uevent':
: undefined reference to `__alloc_skb'
lib/lib.a(kobject_uevent.o)(.text+0x2a1): In function `kobject_uevent':
: undefined reference to `skb_over_panic'
lib/lib.a(kobject_uevent.o)(.text+0x31d): In function `kobject_uevent':
: undefined reference to `skb_over_panic'
lib/lib.a(kobject_uevent.o)(.text+0x356): In function `kobject_uevent':
: undefined reference to `netlink_broadcast'
lib/lib.a(kobject_uevent.o)(.init.text+0x9): In function `kobject_uevent_init':
: undefined reference to `netlink_kernel_create'
make: *** [.tmp_vmlinux1] Error 1

Netlink is unconditionally enabled if CONFIG_NET, so that's OK.

kobject_uevent.o is compiled even if !CONFIG_HOTPLUG, which is lazy.

Let's compound the sin.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-01-04 16:18:08 -08:00
Kay Sievers 312c004d36 [PATCH] driver core: replace "hotplug" by "uevent"
Leave the overloaded "hotplug" word to susbsystems which are handling
real devices. The driver core does not "plug" anything, it just exports
the state to userspace and generates events.

Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-01-04 16:18:08 -08:00
Kay Sievers 5f123fbd80 [PATCH] merge kobject_uevent and kobject_hotplug
The distinction between hotplug and uevent does not make sense these
days, netlink events are the default.

udev depends entirely on netlink uevents. Only during early boot and
in initramfs, /sbin/hotplug is needed. So merge the two functions and
provide only one interface without all the options.

The netlink layer got a nice generic interface with named slots
recently, which is probably a better facility to plug events for
subsystem specific events.
Also the new poll() interface to /proc/mounts is a nicer way to
notify about changes than sending events through the core.
The uevents should only be used for driver core related requests to
userspace now.

Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-01-04 16:18:07 -08:00
Kay Sievers 033b96fd30 [PATCH] remove mount/umount uevents from superblock handling
The names of these events have been confusing from the beginning
on, as they have been more like claim/release events. We needed these
events for noticing HAL if storage devices have been mounted.

Thanks to Al, we have the proper solution now and can poll()
/proc/mounts instead to get notfied about mount tree changes.

Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-01-04 16:18:07 -08:00
Kay Sievers 0296b22813 [PATCH] remove CONFIG_KOBJECT_UEVENT option
It makes zero sense to have hotplug, but not the netlink
events enabled today. Remove this option and merge the
kobject_uevent.h header into the kobject.h header file.

Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-01-04 16:18:07 -08:00
Greg KH 6fbfddcb52 Merge ../bleed-2.6 2005-10-28 10:13:16 -07:00
Erik Hovland 4ed17dccd6 [PATCH] kobject_uevent.c has a typo in a comment
This patch changes trough to through in a comment in kobject_uevent.c.

Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2005-10-28 09:52:50 -07:00
Al Viro fd4f2df24b [PATCH] gfp_t: lib/*
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-28 08:16:47 -07:00
Patrick McHardy 066286071d [NETLINK]: Add "groups" argument to netlink_kernel_create
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-08-29 16:01:11 -07:00
Patrick McHardy ac6d439d20 [NETLINK]: Convert netlink users to use group numbers instead of bitmasks
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-08-29 16:00:54 -07:00
Patrick McHardy 43e943c32b [NETLINK]: Fix missing dst_groups initializations in netlink_broadcast users
netlink_broadcast users must initialize NETLINK_CB(skb).dst_groups to the
destination group mask for netlink_recvmsg.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-08-29 16:00:34 -07:00
Harald Welte 4fdb3bb723 [NETLINK]: Add properly module refcounting for kernel netlink sockets.
- Remove bogus code for compiling netlink as module
- Add module refcounting support for modules implementing a netlink
  protocol
- Add support for autoloading modules that implement a netlink protocol
  as soon as someone opens a socket for that protocol

Signed-off-by: Harald Welte <laforge@netfilter.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-08-29 15:35:08 -07:00
Dmitry Torokhov f3b4f3c6de [PATCH] Make kobject's name be const char *
kobject: make kobject's name const char * since users should not
	 attempt to change it (except by calling kobject_rename).

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2005-06-20 15:15:00 -07:00