A "coldplug + udevstart" can be simple like this:
  for i in /sys/block/*/*/uevent; do echo 1 > $i; done
  for i in /sys/class/*/*/uevent; do echo 1 > $i; done
  for i in /sys/bus/*/devices/*/uevent; do echo 1 > $i; done
Signed-off-by: NKay Sievers <kay.sievers@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

Driver core: pass interface to class intreface methods

Pass interface as argument to add() and remove() class interface
methods. This way a subsystem can implement generic add/remove
handlers and then call interface-specific ones.
Signed-off-by: NDmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

add the helper and use it instead of open coding the klist_node_attached() check
(which is a layering violation IMHO)

idea by Alan Stern.
Signed-off-by: NDaniel Ritz <daniel.ritz@gmx.ch>
Cc: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

Implement the framework for binding physical devices
with ACPI devices. A physical bus like PCI bus
should create a 'acpi_bus_type', with:

.find_device:
        For device which has parent such as normal PCI devices.

.find_bridge:
        It's for special devices, such as PCI root bridge
	or IDE controller.  Such devices generally haven't a
	parent or ->bus. We use the special method
	to get an ACPI handle.

Uses new field in struct device: firmware_data

http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4277Signed-off-by: NDavid Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NLen Brown <len.brown@intel.com>

No one was looking at the return value of bus_rescan_devices, and it
really wasn't anything that anyone in the kernel would ever care about.
So change it which enabled some counting code to be removed also.
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

Add bus_find_device() and driver_find_device() which allow searching for a
device in the bus's resp. the driver's klist and obtain a reference on it.
Signed-off-by: NCornelia Huck <cohuck@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

This patch adds the device_attribute paramerter to the
device_attribute store and show sysfs callback functions, and passes a
reference to the attribute when the callbacks are called.
Signed-off-by: NYani Ioannou <yani.ioannou@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

There's no check to see if the device is already bound to a driver, which
could do bad things.  The first thing to go wrong is that it will try to match
a driver with a device already bound to one.  In some cases (it appears with
USB with drivers/usb/core/usb.c::usb_match_id()), some drivers will match a
device based on the class type, so it would be common (especially for HID
devices) to match a device that is already bound.

The fun comes when ->probe() is called, it fails, then
driver_probe_device() does this:

	dev->driver = NULL;

Later on, that pointer could be be dereferenced without checking and cause
hell to break loose.

This problem could be nasty. It's very hardware dependent, since some
devices could have a different set of matching qualifiers than others.

Now, I don't quite see exactly where/how you were getting that crash.
You're dereferencing bad memory, but I'm not sure which pointer was bad
and where it came from, but it could have come from a couple of different
places.

The patch below will hopefully fix it all up for you. It's against
2.6.12-rc2-mm1, and does the following:

- Move logic to driver_probe_device() and comments uncommon returns:
  1 - If device is bound
  0 - If device not bound, and no error
  error - If there was an error.

- Move locking to caller of that function, since we want to lock a
  device for the entire time we're trying to bind it to a driver (to
  prevent against a driver being loaded at the same time).

- Update __device_attach() and __driver_attach() to do that locking.

- Check if device is already bound in __driver_attach()

- Update the converse device_release_driver() so it locks the device
  around all of the operations.

- Mark driver_probe_device() as static and remove export. It's an
  internal function, it should stay that way, and there are no other
  callers. If there is ever a need to export it, we can audit it as
  necessary.
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>

- Use klist iterator in device_for_each_child(), making it safe to use for
  removing devices.
- Remove unused list_to_dev() function.
- Kills all usage of devices_subsys.rwsem.
Signed-off-by: NPatrick Mochel <mochel@digitalimplant.org>
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

Signed-off-by: NPatrick Mochel <mochel@digitalimplant.org>
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

Signed-off-by: NPatrick Mochel <mochel@digitalimplant.org>
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

Signed-off-by: NPatrick Mochel <mochel@digitalimplant.org>
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

- Use it in driver_for_each_device() instead of the regular list_head and stop using
  the bus's rwsem for protection.
- Use driver_for_each_device() in driver_detach() so we don't deadlock on the
  bus's rwsem.
- Remove ->devices.
- Move klist access and sysfs link access out from under device's semaphore, since
  they're synchronized through other means.
Signed-off-by: NPatrick Mochel <mochel@digitalimplant.org>
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

- Use it in bus_for_each_drv().
- Use the klist spinlock instead of the bus rwsem.
Signed-off-by: NPatrick Mochel <mochel@digitalimplant.org>
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

- Use it for bus_for_each_dev().
- Use the klist spinlock instead of the bus rwsem.
Signed-off-by: NPatrick Mochel <mochel@digitalimplant.org>
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

Now there's an iterator for accessing each device bound to a driver.
Signed-off-by: NPatrick Mochel <mochel@digitalimplant.org>
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

Index: linux-2.6.12-rc2/drivers/base/driver.c
===================================================================

This adds a per-device semaphore that is taken before every call from the core to a
driver method. This prevents e.g. simultaneous calls to the ->suspend() or ->resume()
and ->probe() or ->release(), potentially saving a whole lot of headaches.

It also moves us a step closer to removing the bus rwsem, since it protects the fields
in struct device that are modified by the core.
Signed-off-by: NPatrick Mochel <mochel@digitalimplant.org>
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

One step on improving the class api so that it can not be used incorrectly.
This also fixes the module owner issue with the dev files that happened when
the devt logic moved to the class core.

Based on a patch originally written by Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

Driver core:
  change driver's, bus's, class's and platform device's names
  to be const char * so one can use
            const char *drv_name = "asdfg";
  when initializing structures.
  Also kill couple of whitespaces.
Signed-off-by: NDmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

The driver model has a "detach_state" mechanism that:

 - Has never been used by any in-kernel drive;
 - Is superfluous, since driver remove() methods can do the same thing;
 - Became buggy when the suspend() parameter changed semantics and type;
 - Could self-deadlock when called from certain suspend contexts;
 - Is effectively wasted documentation, object code, and headspace.

This removes that "detach_state" mechanism; net code shrink, as well
as a per-device saving in the driver model and sysfs.
Signed-off-by: NDavid Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
infrastructure for it.

Let it rip!