Some time ago the way how sysfs stores a pointer to a kobject
corresponding to a directory was modified. This patch brings the
documentation again in sync with the implementation.
Signed-off-by: NBart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

Signed-off-by: NIra Weiny <weiny2@llnl.gov>
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

Fix all discrepancies I know of between the sysfs implementation and its
documentation.
Signed-off-by: NBart Van Assche <bart.vanassche@gmail.com>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

Many struct driver_attribute descriptors are purely read-only
structures, and there's no need to change them. Therefore make
the promise not to, which will let those descriptors be put in
a ro section.
Signed-off-by: NPhil Carmody <ext-phil.2.carmody@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

Most device_attributes are const, and are begging to be
put in a ro section. However, the create and remove
file interfaces were failing to propagate the const promise
which the only functions they call offer.
Signed-off-by: NPhil Carmody <ext-phil.2.carmody@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

The original text suggested that sysfs is mandatory and always
compiled in the kernel.
Signed-off-by: NLucian Adrian Grijincu <lgrijincu@ixiacom.com>
Signed-off-by: NRandy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

Fix descriptions of device attributes to be consistent with the actual
implementations in include/linux/device.h

Signed-off-by: Mike Murphy <mamurph[at]cs.clemson.edu>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Why?:
There are occasions where userspace would like to access sysfs
attributes for a device but it may not know how sysfs has named the
device or the path.  For example what is the sysfs path for
/dev/disk/by-id/ata-ST3160827AS_5MT004CK?  With this change a call to
stat(2) returns the major:minor then userspace can see that
/sys/dev/block/8:32 links to /sys/block/sdc.

What are the alternatives?:
1/ Add an ioctl to return the path: Doable, but sysfs is meant to reduce
   the need to proliferate ioctl interfaces into the kernel, so this
   seems counter productive.

2/ Use udev to create these symlinks: Also doable, but it adds a
   udev dependency to utilities that might be running in a limited
   environment like an initramfs.

3/ Do a full-tree search of sysfs.

[kay.sievers@vrfy.org: fix duplicate registrations]
[kay.sievers@vrfy.org: cleanup suggestions]

Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Acked-by: NKay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Reviewed-by: NSL Baur <steve@xemacs.org>
Acked-by: NKay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Acked-by: NMark Lord <lkml@rtr.ca>
Acked-by: NH. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: NDan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

Requiring userspace to close and re-open sysfs attributes has been the
policy since before 2.6.12.  It allows userspace to get a consistent
snapshot of kernel state and consume it with incremental reads and seeks.

Now, if the file position is zero the kernel assumes userspace wants to see
the new value.  The application for this change is to allow a userspace
RAID metadata handler to check the state of an array without causing any
memory allocations.  Thus not causing writeback to a raid array that might
be blocked waiting for userspace to take action.

Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Acked-by: NTejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NDan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

Add the obvious missing word.
Signed-off-by: NShaun Zinck <shaun.zinck@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NAdrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>

This patch fixes typos in various Documentation txts. This patch addresses
some words starting with the letters 'D'-'E'.
Signed-off-by: NMatt LaPlante <kernel1@cyberdogtech.com>
Signed-off-by: NAdrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>

Signed-off-by: NMiklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>

Change filemode to use defines in stead of 0644,
based on suggestions by Walter Harms and Domen Puncer.
Signed-off-by: NJan Veldeman <Jan.Veldeman@advalvas.be>
Signed-off-by: NDomen Puncer <domen@coderock.org>
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

Fix whitespace after comma between parameters.
Signed-off-by: NJan Veldeman <Jan.Veldeman@advalvas.be>
Signed-off-by: NDomen Puncer <domen@coderock.org>
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

Signed-off-by: NYani Ioannou <yani.ioannou@gmail.com>
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!