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Andi Kleen e52eec13cd SYSFS: Allow boot time switching between deprecated and modern sysfs layout
I have some systems which need legacy sysfs due to old tools that are
making assumptions that a directory can never be a symlink to another
directory, and it's a big hazzle to compile separate kernels for them.

This patch turns CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED into a run time option
that can be switched on/off the kernel command line. This way
the same binary can be used in both cases with just a option
on the command line.

The old CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 option is still there to set
the default. I kept the weird name to not break existing
config files.

Also the compat code can be still completely disabled by undefining
CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED_SWITCH -- just the optimizer takes
care of this now instead of lots of ifdefs. This makes the code
look nicer.

v2: This is an updated version on top of Kay's patch to only
handle the block devices. I tested it on my old systems
and that seems to work.

Cc: axboe@kernel.dk
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-10-22 10:16:43 -07:00
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ABI add Packet hub driver for Topcliff Platform controller hub 2010-10-22 10:16:42 -07:00
accounting
acpi ACPI: introduce module parameter acpi.aml_debug_output 2010-08-14 23:02:14 -04:00
aoe Documentation: update broken web addresses. 2010-08-04 15:21:40 +02:00
arm Documentation: update broken web addresses. 2010-08-04 15:21:40 +02:00
auxdisplay
blackfin Blackfin: document SPI CS limitations with CPHA=0 2010-08-06 12:55:52 -04:00
block cfq-iosched: Documentation help for new tunables 2010-08-23 12:25:29 +02:00
blockdev Documentation: update broken web addresses. 2010-08-04 15:21:40 +02:00
cdrom Documentation: update broken web addresses. 2010-08-04 15:21:40 +02:00
cgroups cfq-iosched: Documentation help for new tunables 2010-08-23 12:25:29 +02:00
connector
console
cpu-freq
cpuidle
cris
crypto
development-process Documentation: update broken web addresses. 2010-08-04 15:21:40 +02:00
device-mapper Documentation: update broken web addresses. 2010-08-04 15:21:40 +02:00
DocBook docbook: skip files with no docs since they generate scary warnings 2010-09-11 16:49:21 -07:00
driver-model
dvb Merge branch 'for-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial 2010-08-04 15:31:02 -07:00
early-userspace
fault-injection
fb Documentation: update broken web addresses. 2010-08-04 15:21:40 +02:00
filesystems bkl: Remove locked .ioctl file operation 2010-08-14 00:24:24 +02:00
firmware_class firmware: Update hotplug script 2010-08-05 13:53:34 -07:00
frv
hwmon hwmon: (adm1031) Replace update_rate sysfs attribute with update_interval 2010-09-17 17:24:14 +02:00
i2c i2c: Add support for custom probe function 2010-08-11 18:20:56 +02:00
i2o
ia64 Documentation: update broken web addresses. 2010-08-04 15:21:40 +02:00
ide
infiniband Documentation: update broken web addresses. 2010-08-04 15:21:40 +02:00
input Merge branch 'for-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial 2010-08-04 15:31:02 -07:00
ioctl Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ieee1394/linux1394-2.6 2010-08-07 17:09:24 -07:00
isdn Merge branch 'for-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial 2010-08-04 15:31:02 -07:00
ja_JP Documentation: update broken web addresses. 2010-08-04 15:21:40 +02:00
kbuild kbuild: drop unifdef-y support 2010-08-14 22:26:52 +02:00
kdump
ko_KR Documentation: update broken web addresses. 2010-08-04 15:21:40 +02:00
kvm KVM: Document KVM_GET_SUPPORTED_CPUID2 ioctl 2010-08-02 06:40:50 +03:00
laptops thinkpad-acpi: untangle ACPI/vendor backlight selection 2010-08-16 11:54:50 -04:00
lguest lguest: clean up warnings in demonstration launcher. 2010-08-27 08:39:51 +09:30
m68k
make
mips
misc-devices Documentation: update broken web addresses. 2010-08-04 15:21:40 +02:00
mmc mmc: add erase, secure erase, trim and secure trim operations 2010-08-12 08:43:30 -07:00
mn10300
mtd Documentation: update broken web addresses. 2010-08-04 15:21:40 +02:00
namespaces
netlabel
networking e1000e.txt: Add e1000e documentation 2010-10-05 13:28:07 -07:00
parisc
PCI Documentation: pci.txt: fix typo 2010-07-11 22:17:45 +02:00
pcmcia pcmcia: do not use io_req_t when calling pcmcia_request_io() 2010-08-03 09:04:11 +02:00
power regulator: Update e-mail address for Liam Girdwood 2010-09-01 12:59:34 +01:00
powerpc Documentation: fix ozlabs.org mailing list address 2010-08-20 09:55:41 -07:00
pps
prctl
RCU Documentation: update broken web addresses. 2010-08-04 15:21:40 +02:00
s390 Documentation: update broken web addresses. 2010-08-04 15:21:40 +02:00
scheduler
scsi Documentation: move SCSI parameters to their own text file 2010-08-14 16:20:59 -07:00
serial Documentation: update broken web addresses. 2010-08-04 15:21:40 +02:00
sh
sound ALSA: hda - Add a new hp-laptop model for Conexant 5066, tested on HP G60 2010-09-02 11:49:17 +02:00
sparc
spi spi/ep93xx: implemented driver for Cirrus EP93xx SPI controller 2010-05-25 00:23:16 -06:00
sysctl oom: enable oom tasklist dump by default 2010-08-09 20:44:56 -07:00
telephony Documentation: update broken web addresses. 2010-08-04 15:21:40 +02:00
thermal
timers Documentation: Add timers/timers-howto.txt 2010-08-04 11:00:45 +02:00
trace vmscan: tracing: add a postprocessing script for reclaim-related ftrace events 2010-08-09 20:45:00 -07:00
uml Documentation: update broken web addresses. 2010-08-04 15:21:40 +02:00
usb USB: gadget: g_multi: added documentation and INF files 2010-08-10 14:35:37 -07:00
video4linux V4L/DVB: Documentation: add v4l2-controls.txt documenting the new controls API 2010-08-08 23:43:04 -03:00
vm page-types.c: fix name of unpoison interface 2010-10-07 09:41:24 +02:00
w1 Documentation: update broken web addresses. 2010-08-04 15:21:40 +02:00
watchdog watchdog: docs: add an entry for imx2_wdt 2010-07-01 16:02:55 +00:00
wimax
x86 x86, olpc: Add support for calling into OpenFirmware 2010-06-18 14:54:36 -07:00
zh_CN Documentation: update broken web addresses. 2010-08-04 15:21:40 +02:00
.gitignore
00-INDEX mmc: add erase, secure erase, trim and secure trim operations 2010-08-12 08:43:30 -07:00
apparmor.txt AppArmor: update Maintainer and Documentation 2010-08-02 15:35:15 +10:00
applying-patches.txt
atomic_ops.txt
bad_memory.txt
basic_profiling.txt
binfmt_misc.txt Documentation: update broken web addresses. 2010-08-04 15:21:40 +02:00
braille-console.txt
bt8xxgpio.txt
btmrvl.txt
BUG-HUNTING
bus-virt-phys-mapping.txt documentation: fix almost duplicate filenames (IO/io-mapping.txt) 2010-07-20 17:49:30 +00:00
cachetlb.txt
Changes Documentation update broken web addresses 2010-07-11 21:55:42 +02:00
circular-buffers.txt
coccinelle.txt Documentation: fix ubuntu distro name 2010-06-29 15:27:00 +02:00
CodingStyle
cpu-hotplug.txt documentation: fix erroneous email address. 2010-08-11 23:04:10 +09:30
cpu-load.txt
cputopology.txt
credentials.txt CRED: Fix __task_cred()'s lockdep check and banner comment 2010-07-29 15:16:18 -07:00
dcdbas.txt
debugging-modules.txt
debugging-via-ohci1394.txt
dell_rbu.txt
devices.txt dm: allow autoloading of dm mod 2010-08-12 04:14:05 +01:00
DMA-API-HOWTO.txt Documentation: DMA-API-HOWTO.txt: rename ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN to ARCH_DMA_MINALIGN 2010-08-14 11:56:46 -07:00
DMA-API.txt dma-mapping: remove dma_is_consistent API 2010-08-11 08:59:21 -07:00
DMA-attributes.txt
DMA-ISA-LPC.txt
dmaengine.txt
dontdiff
dynamic-debug-howto.txt Dynamic Debug: Introduce ddebug_query= boot parameter 2010-10-22 10:16:42 -07:00
edac.txt Documentation/edac.txt: Reflect the sysfs changes at the document 2010-05-10 11:49:30 -03:00
eisa.txt
email-clients.txt
feature-removal-schedule.txt dma-mapping: add DMA_xxBIT_MASK to feature-removal-schedule.txt 2010-08-11 08:59:22 -07:00
flexible-arrays.txt
futex-requeue-pi.txt
gcov.txt
gpio.txt gpio: doc updates 2010-09-09 18:57:24 -07:00
highuid.txt
HOWTO Documentation: update broken web addresses. 2010-08-04 15:21:40 +02:00
hw_random.txt
init.txt
initrd.txt
intel_txt.txt Documentation: update broken web addresses. 2010-08-04 15:21:40 +02:00
Intel-IOMMU.txt
io_ordering.txt
io-mapping.txt
iostats.txt
IPMI.txt
IRQ-affinity.txt
IRQ.txt
irqflags-tracing.txt
isapnp.txt
java.txt
kernel-doc-nano-HOWTO.txt docbook: warn on unused doc entries 2010-09-11 16:49:21 -07:00
kernel-docs.txt Documentation: update broken web addresses. 2010-08-04 15:21:40 +02:00
kernel-parameters.txt SYSFS: Allow boot time switching between deprecated and modern sysfs layout 2010-10-22 10:16:43 -07:00
keys-request-key.txt
keys.txt
kmemcheck.txt
kmemleak.txt
kobject.txt
kprobes.txt Documentation: Mention that KProbes is supported on MIPS 2010-08-05 13:26:30 +01:00
kref.txt
ldm.txt Documentation: update broken web addresses. 2010-08-04 15:21:40 +02:00
leds-class.txt
leds-lp3944.txt
local_ops.txt
lockdep-design.txt
lockstat.txt
logo.gif
logo.txt
magic-number.txt
Makefile
ManagementStyle
mca.txt
md.txt Documentation: update broken web addresses. 2010-08-04 15:21:40 +02:00
memory-barriers.txt
memory-hotplug.txt
memory.txt
mono.txt
mutex-design.txt mutex: Fix annotations to include it in kernel-locking docbook 2010-09-03 08:19:51 +02:00
nmi_watchdog.txt
nommu-mmap.txt
numastat.txt
oops-tracing.txt panic: Add taint flag TAINT_FIRMWARE_WORKAROUND ('I') 2010-05-19 08:37:43 +01:00
padata.txt Documentation/padata.txt: fix typos etc. 2010-08-11 08:59:18 -07:00
parport-lowlevel.txt
parport.txt
pi-futex.txt
pnp.txt
preempt-locking.txt
printk-formats.txt
prio_tree.txt
rbtree.txt
rfkill.txt
robust-futex-ABI.txt
robust-futexes.txt
rt-mutex-design.txt variable name fix to Documentation/rt-mutex-design.txt 2010-06-05 17:39:09 +02:00
rt-mutex.txt
rtc.txt
SAK.txt
SecurityBugs
SELinux.txt
serial-console.txt
sgi-ioc4.txt
sgi-visws.txt
SM501.txt
Smack.txt
sparse.txt update email address 2010-07-19 10:56:54 +02:00
spinlocks.txt
stable_api_nonsense.txt
stable_kernel_rules.txt
SubmitChecklist Documentation: update SubmitChecklist for O=objdir and kconfig testing 2010-05-24 07:31:20 -07:00
SubmittingDrivers Documentation: update broken web addresses. 2010-08-04 15:21:40 +02:00
SubmittingPatches SubmittingPatches: add more about patch descriptions 2010-08-09 20:45:05 -07:00
svga.txt
sysfs-rules.txt
sysrq.txt Input: Documentation/sysrq.txt - update KEY_SYSRQ info 2010-05-19 10:14:15 -07:00
tomoyo.txt TOMOYO: Update version to 2.3.0 2010-08-02 15:35:10 +10:00
unaligned-memory-access.txt
unicode.txt
unshare.txt
VGA-softcursor.txt
vgaarbiter.txt
video-output.txt
volatile-considered-harmful.txt
workqueue.txt workqueue: add documentation 2010-09-13 10:26:52 +02:00
zorro.txt