After merging the final tree, today's linux-next build (powerpc
allyesconfig) failed like this:

drivers/pci/pci-sysfs.c: In function 'pci_create_legacy_files':
drivers/pci/pci-sysfs.c:645: error: lvalue required as unary '&' operand
drivers/pci/pci-sysfs.c:658: error: lvalue required as unary '&' operand

Caused by commit "sysfs: Use sysfs_attr_init and sysfs_bin_attr_init on
dynamic attributes" interacting with commit "sysfs: Use one lockdep
class per sysfs attribute") both from the driver-core tree.
Signed-off-by: NStephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

Now that there are no more users we can remove
the sysfs_sb variable.
Acked-by: NTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: NSerge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: NEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@aristanetworks.com>
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

Currently sysfs_get_inode magically returns an inode on
sysfs_sb.  Make the super_block parameter explicit and
the code becomes clearer.
Acked-by: NTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: NSerge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: NEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@aristanetworks.com>
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

Don't open code the renaming of symlinks in sysfs
instead use the new helper function sysfs_rename_link
Acked-by: NTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: NSerge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: NEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@aristanetworks.com>
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

Because of rename ordering problems we occassionally give false
warnings about invalid sysfs operations.  So using sysfs_rename
create a sysfs_rename_link function that doesn't need strange
workarounds.

Cc: Benjamin Thery <benjamin.thery@bull.net>
Cc: Daniel Lezcano <dlezcano@fr.ibm.com>
Acked-by: NSerge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: NTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: NEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@aristanetworks.com>
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

Placing the 16bit s_mode between a pointer and a long doesn't pack well
especailly on 64bit where we wast 48 bits.  So move s_mode and
declare it as a unsigned short.  This is the sysfs backing store
after all we don't need fields extra large just in case someday
we want userspace to be able to use a larger value.
Acked-by: NTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: NEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@aristanetworks.com>
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

The vfs depends upon filesystem methods to update the
vfs inode.   Sysfs adds to the normal number of places
where the vfs inode is updated by also updatng the
vfs inode in sysfs_refresh_inode.

Typically the inode mutex is used to serialize updates
to the vfs inode, but grabbing the inode mutex in
sysfs_permission and sysfs_getattr causes deadlocks,
because sometimes the vfs calls those operations with
the inode mutex held.  Therefore sysfs  can not use the
inode mutex to serial updates to the vfs inode.

The sysfs_mutex is acquired in all of the routines
where sysfs updates the vfs inode, and with a small
change we can consistently protext sysfs vfs inode
updates with the sysfs_mutex. To protect the sysfs
vfs inode updates with the sysfs_mutex simply requires
extending the scope of sysfs_mutex in sysfs_setattr
over inode_setattr, and over inode_change_ok (so we
have an unchanging inode when we perform the check).
Acked-by: NSerge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: NEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@aristanetworks.com>
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

This is required for lockdep.
Signed-off-by: NJohannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

A little more whack-a-mole annotating the dynamic sysfs attributes.  I
had everything built into my earlier test kernel, and so I missed
these.
Signed-off-by: NEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

I have added a new requirement to the external sysfs interface
that dynamically allocated sysfs attributes must call sysfs_attr_init
if lockdep is enabled.  For the time being callying sysfs_attr_init
is only mandatory if lockdep is enabled, so we can live with a few
unconverted instances until we find them all.  As this is part of
the public interface of sysfs it is a good idea to document these
pseudo functions so someone inspeciting the code can find out
what has happened.
Signed-off-by: NEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

These are the non-static sysfs attributes that exist on
my test machine.  Fix them to use sysfs_attr_init or
sysfs_bin_attr_init as appropriate.   It simply requires
making a sysfs attribute present to see this.  So this
is a little bit tedious but otherwise not too bad.
Signed-off-by: NEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Acked-by: NWANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

Acknowledge that the logical sysfs rwsem has one instance per
sysfs attribute with different locking depencencies for different
attributes.

There is a sysfs idiom where writing to one sysfs file causes the
addition or removal of other sysfs files.   Lumping all of the
sysfs attributes together in one lock class causes lockdep to
generate lots of false positives.

This introduces the requirement that non-static sysfs attributes
need to be initialized with sysfs_attr_init or sysfs_bin_attr_init.
Strictly speaking this requirement only exists when lockdep is
enabled, and when lockdep is enabled we get a bit fat warning
if this requirement is not met.
Signed-off-by: NEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Acked-by: NWANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

If we exclude directories and symlinks from the set of sysfs
dirents where we need active references we are left with
sysfs attributes (binary or not).

- Tweak sysfs_deactivate to only do something on attributes
- Move lockdep initialization into sysfs_file_add_mode to
  limit it to just attributes.
Signed-off-by: NEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Acked-by: NWANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

It turns out that holding an active reference on a directory is
pointless.  The purpose of the active references are to allows us to
block when removing sysfs entries that have custom methods so we don't
remove modules while running modular code and to keep those custom
methods from accessing data structures after the files have been
removed.  Further sysfs_remove_dir remove all elements in the
directory before removing the directory itself, so there is no chance
we will remove a directory with active children.
Signed-off-by: NEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

The function name must be followed by a space, hypen, space, and a
short description.
Signed-off-by: NBen Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

Ben Nizette, the author of this driver, told me in a private mail that this
project has been cancelled. He suggested to remove the driver for now, and
will come back with a new version should the hardware really exist.
This patch completely removes the driver.
Signed-off-by: NHans J. Koch <hjk@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: NBen Nizette <bn@niasdigital.com>
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

Two trivial fixes for the Userspace IO Kconfig file:
1) uio_sercos3 is a PCI driver, so let it depend on PCI.
2) "default n" under UIO_PCI_GENERIC is luxury since it is already the default.
Acked-by: NJohn Ogness <john.ogness@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: NHans J. Koch <hjk@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

This patch adds a Userspace IO driver for netX-based fieldbus cards by
Hilscher (see http://www.hilscher.com). ATM, cifX and comX cards are
supported. The userspace part for this driver is provided by Hilscher
and should come with the card.
The driver is in use for several months now and has been tested by
people at Hilscher and Linutronix.
Signed-off-by: NHans J. Koch <hjk@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

A pointer to cfag12864bfb_probe is passed to the core via
platform_driver_register and so the function must not disappear when the
.init sections are discarded.  Otherwise (if also having HOTPLUG=y)
unbinding and binding a device to the driver via sysfs will result in an
oops as does a device being registered late.

An alternative to this patch is using platform_driver_probe instead of
platform_driver_register plus removing the pointer to the probe function
from the struct platform_driver.
Signed-off-by: NUwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>
Acked-by: NMiguel Ojeda <miguel.ojeda.sandonis@gmail.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Avuton Olrich <avuton@gmail.com>
Cc: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

A pointer to omap24xxcam_probe is passed to the core via
platform_driver_register and so the function must not disappear when the
.init sections are discarded.  Otherwise (if also having HOTPLUG=y)
unbinding and binding a device to the driver via sysfs will result in an
oops as does a device being registered late.

An alternative to this patch is using platform_driver_probe instead of
platform_driver_register plus removing the pointer to the probe function
from the struct platform_driver.
Signed-off-by: NUwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>
Acked-by: NSakari Ailus <sakari.ailus@maxwell.research.nokia.com>
Acked-by: NTrilok Soni <soni.trilok@gmail.com>
Cc: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xs4all.nl>
Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

A pointer to omap_hdq_probe is passed to the core via
platform_driver_register and so the function must not disappear when the
.init sections are discarded.  Otherwise (if also having HOTPLUG=y)
unbinding and binding a device to the driver via sysfs will result in an
oops as does a device being registered late.

An alternative to this patch is using platform_driver_probe instead of
platform_driver_register plus removing the pointer to the probe function
from the struct platform_driver.
Signed-off-by: NUwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>
Cc: Stanley.Miao <stanley.miao@windriver.com>
Acked-by: NEvgeniy Polyakov <zbr@ioremap.net>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Madhusudhan Chikkature <madhu.cr@ti.com>
Cc: Felipe Balbi <felipe.balbi@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

A pointer to omap_i2c_probe is passed to the core via
platform_driver_register and so the function must not disappear when the
.init sections are discarded.  Otherwise (if also having HOTPLUG=y)
unbinding and binding a device to the driver via sysfs will result in an
oops as does a device being registered late.

An alternative to this patch is using platform_driver_probe instead of
platform_driver_register plus removing the pointer to the probe function
from the struct platform_driver.
Signed-off-by: NUwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>
Cc: Kalle Jokiniemi <ext-kalle.jokiniemi@nokia.com>
Cc: Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com>
Cc: Paul Walmsley <paul@pwsan.com>
Cc: Richard Woodruff <r-woodruff2@ti.com>
Cc: chandra shekhar <x0044955@ti.com>
Cc: Jason P Marini <jason.marini@gmail.com>
Cc: Syed Mohammed Khasim  <x0khasim@ti.com>
Cc: Jarkko Nikula <jarkko.nikula@nokia.com>
Cc: Juha Yrjola <juha.yrjola@solidboot.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

A pointer to hp_wmi_bios_setup is passed to the core via
platform_driver_register and so the function must not disappear when the
.init sections are discarded.  Otherwise (if also having HOTPLUG=y)
unbinding and binding a device to the driver via sysfs will result in an
oops as does a device being registered late.

An alternative to this patch is using platform_driver_probe instead of
platform_driver_register plus removing the pointer to the probe function
from the struct platform_driver.
Signed-off-by: NUwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>
Cc: Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>
Cc: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
Cc: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Acked-by: NMatthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

A pointer to a probe callback is passed to the core via
platform_driver_register and so the function must not disappear when the
.init sections are discarded.  Otherwise (if also having HOTPLUG=y)
unbinding and binding a device to the driver via sysfs will result in an
oops as does a device being registered late.

An alternative to this patch is using platform_driver_probe instead of
platform_driver_register plus removing the pointer to the probe function
from the struct platform_driver.
Signed-off-by: NUwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>
Cc: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Cc: Alberto Mardegan <mardy@users.sourceforge.net>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andriy Skulysh <askulysh@gmail.com>
Cc: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@gmail.com>
Cc: Anton Vorontsov <avorontsov@ru.mvista.com>
Cc: Ben Dooks <ben-linux@fluff.org>
Cc: Chandramouli Narayanan <mouli@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <Geert.Uytterhoeven@sonycom.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Cc: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
Cc: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
Cc: Ian Molton <spyro@f2s.com>
Cc: Joshua Kinard <kumba@gentoo.org>
Cc: Kaj-Michael Lang <milang@tal.org>
Cc: Krzysztof Helt <krzysztof.h1@poczta.fm>
Cc: linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Cc: Maciej W. Rozycki <macro@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Magnus Damm <damm@igel.co.jp>
Cc: Martin Michlmayr <tbm@cyrius.com>
Cc: Matthias Kaehlcke <matthias@kaehlcke.net>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
Cc: Philipp Zabel <philipp.zabel@gmail.com>
Cc: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net>
Cc: Roel Kluin <roel.kluin@gmail.com>
Cc: Roland Stigge <stigge@antcom.de>
Cc: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@alpha.franken.de>
Cc: Vincent Sanders <vince@simtec.co.uk>
Cc: Yoichi Yuasa <yoichi_yuasa@tripeaks.co.jp>
Acked-by: NRalf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Acked-by: NArnaud Patard <arnaud.patard@rtp-net.org>
Acked-by: NJames Simmons <jsimmons@infradead.org>
Acked-by: NPeter Jones <pjones@redhat.com>
Acked-by: NJaya Kumar <jayakumar.lkml@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

A pointer to a probe callback is passed to the core via
platform_driver_register and so the function must not disappear when the
.init sections are discarded.  Otherwise (if also having HOTPLUG=y)
unbinding and binding a device to the driver via sysfs will result in an
oops as does a device being registered late.

An alternative to this patch is using platform_driver_probe instead of
platform_driver_register plus removing the pointer to the probe function
from the struct platform_driver.
Signed-off-by: NUwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Cc: Dmitri Vorobiev <dmitri.vorobiev@movial.fi>
Cc: Henrik Kretzschmar <henne@nachtwindheim.de>
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Cc: peter fuerst <post@pfrst.de>
Cc: Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@alpha.franken.de>
Acked-by: NRalf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

A pointer to a probe callback is passed to the core via
platform_driver_register and so the function must not disappear when the
.init sections are discarded.  Otherwise (if also having HOTPLUG=y)
unbinding and binding a device to the driver via sysfs will result in an
oops as does a device being registered late.

An alternative to this patch is using platform_driver_probe instead of
platform_driver_register plus removing the pointer to the probe function
from the struct platform_driver.
Signed-off-by: NUwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Ben Dooks <ben-linux@fluff.org>
Cc: Dmitry Baryshkov <dbaryshkov@gmail.com>
Cc: Eric Miao <eric.miao@marvell.com>
Cc: Liam Girdwood <liam.girdwood@wolfsonmicro.com>
Cc: Paul Sokolovsky <pmiscml@gmail.com>
Cc: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net>
Cc: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Acked-by: NArnaud Patard <arnaud.patard@rtp-net.org>
Acked-by: NDmitry Eremin-Solenikov <dbaryshkov@gmail.com>
Acked-by: NKristoffer Ericson <kristoffer.ericson@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

This fixes a warning on several pxa based machines:

	arch/arm/mach-pxa/ssp.c:475: warning: initialization discards qualifiers from pointer target type
Signed-off-by: NUwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>
Acked-by: NVikram Dhillon <dhillonv10@gmail.com>
Acked-by: NEric Miao <eric.y.miao@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

Constify struct sysfs_ops.

This is part of the ops structure constification
effort started by Arjan van de Ven et al.

Benefits of this constification:

 * prevents modification of data that is shared
   (referenced) by many other structure instances
   at runtime

 * detects/prevents accidental (but not intentional)
   modification attempts on archs that enforce
   read-only kernel data at runtime

 * potentially better optimized code as the compiler
   can assume that the const data cannot be changed

 * the compiler/linker move const data into .rodata
   and therefore exclude them from false sharing
Signed-off-by: NEmese Revfy <re.emese@gmail.com>
Acked-by: NDavid Teigland <teigland@redhat.com>
Acked-by: NMatt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>
Acked-by: NMaciej Sosnowski <maciej.sosnowski@intel.com>
Acked-by: NHans J. Koch <hjk@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: NPekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Acked-by: NJens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Acked-by: NStephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

These should be sysdev attributes, not class attributes.  This patch
should resolve the problem.

Thanks to Stephen Rothwell for pointing out the problem.
Reported-by: NStephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

One of the roles which -mm fulfilled some time ago (to offer an
integration testing ground) has been taken over by -next.  This is still
news to Documentation/HOWTO, so mention it there.

Also add a word on how patchwork is used to track patches as they make
their way into subsystem trees.  Remove some arbitrary links to
subsystem repositories; they can all be found in the MAINTAINERS
database.
Acked-by: NRandy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: NStefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

Constify struct kset_uevent_ops.

This is part of the ops structure constification
effort started by Arjan van de Ven et al.

Benefits of this constification:

 * prevents modification of data that is shared
   (referenced) by many other structure instances
   at runtime

 * detects/prevents accidental (but not intentional)
   modification attempts on archs that enforce
   read-only kernel data at runtime

 * potentially better optimized code as the compiler
   can assume that the const data cannot be changed

 * the compiler/linker move const data into .rodata
   and therefore exclude them from false sharing
Signed-off-by: NEmese Revfy <re.emese@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

base.h is used by base drivers for sharing internal structures.
Turns out firmware_class does not depend on it at all so remove it.

Cc: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: NLuis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Acked-by: NMarcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

When sysfs_readdir stops short we now cache the next
sysfs_dirent to return to user space in filp->private_data.
There is no impact on the rest of sysfs by doing this and
in the common case it allows us to pick up exactly where
we left off with no seeking.

Additionally I drop and regrab the sysfs_mutex around
filldir to avoid a page fault abritrarily increasing the
hold time on the sysfs_mutex.

v2: Returned to using INT_MAX as the EOF condition.
    seekdir is ambiguous unless all directory entries have
    a unique f_pos value.

Fixes http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14949Signed-off-by: NEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@aristanetworks.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: stable <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

No longer fall back to "add" and warn, but always require a valid
action-string written to the "uevent" file.
Signed-off-by: NKay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

No recent mainstream system uses the /sbin/hotplug fork-bomb any more.
Disable it by default to reflect how it is used these days.
Signed-off-by: NKay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

All major distros enable devtmpfs on recent systems, so remove
the EXPERIMENTAL flag, and make the description a bit more instructive.
Signed-off-by: NKay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

Before unlinking the inode, reset the current permissions of possible
references like hardlinks, so granted permissions can not be retained
across the device lifetime by creating hardlinks, in the unusual case
that there is a user-writable directory on the same filesystem.
Signed-off-by: NKay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Cc: stable <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

Convert some drivers who export a single string as class attribute
to the new class_attr_string functions. This removes redundant
code all over.
Signed-off-by: NAndi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

Several drivers just export a static string as class attributes.

Use the new extensible attribute support to define a simple
CLASS_ATTR_STRING() macro for this.

This will allow to remove code from drivers in followon patches.
Signed-off-by: NAndi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

Passing the attribute to the low level IO functions allows all kinds
of cleanups, by sharing low level IO code without requiring
an own function for every piece of data.

Also drivers can extend the attributes with own data fields
and use that in the low level function.

This makes the class attributes the same as sysdev_class attributes
and plain attributes.

This will allow further cleanups in drivers.

Full tree sweep converting all users.
Signed-off-by: NAndi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>