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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2015-11-04 21:50:37 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2015-11-04 21:50:37 -0800
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Merge tag 'driver-core-4.4-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core
Pull driver core updates from Greg KH: "Here's the "big" driver core updates for 4.4-rc1. Primarily a bunch of debugfs updates, with a smattering of minor driver core fixes and updates as well. All have been in linux-next for a long time" * tag 'driver-core-4.4-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core: debugfs: Add debugfs_create_ulong() of: to support binding numa node to specified device in devicetree debugfs: Add read-only/write-only bool file ops debugfs: Add read-only/write-only size_t file ops debugfs: Add read-only/write-only x64 file ops debugfs: Consolidate file mode checks in debugfs_create_*() Revert "mm: Check if section present during memory block (un)registering" driver-core: platform: Provide helpers for multi-driver modules mm: Check if section present during memory block (un)registering devres: fix a for loop bounds check CMA: fix CONFIG_CMA_SIZE_MBYTES overflow in 64bit base/platform: assert that dev_pm_domain callbacks are called unconditionally sysfs: correctly handle short reads on PREALLOC attrs. base: soc: siplify ida usage kobject: move EXPORT_SYMBOL() macros next to corresponding definitions kobject: explain what kobject's sd field is debugfs: document that debugfs_remove*() accepts NULL and error values debugfs: Pass bool pointer to debugfs_create_bool() ACPI / EC: Fix broken 64bit big-endian users of 'global_lock'
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
-rw-r--r--Documentation/driver-model/platform.txt14
-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/debugfs.txt2
2 files changed, 15 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/driver-model/platform.txt b/Documentation/driver-model/platform.txt
index 07795ec..e456696 100644
--- a/Documentation/driver-model/platform.txt
+++ b/Documentation/driver-model/platform.txt
@@ -63,6 +63,20 @@ runtime memory footprint:
int platform_driver_probe(struct platform_driver *drv,
int (*probe)(struct platform_device *))
+Kernel modules can be composed of several platform drivers. The platform core
+provides helpers to register and unregister an array of drivers:
+
+ int __platform_register_drivers(struct platform_driver * const *drivers,
+ unsigned int count, struct module *owner);
+ void platform_unregister_drivers(struct platform_driver * const *drivers,
+ unsigned int count);
+
+If one of the drivers fails to register, all drivers registered up to that
+point will be unregistered in reverse order. Note that there is a convenience
+macro that passes THIS_MODULE as owner parameter:
+
+ #define platform_register_driver(drivers, count)
+
Device Enumeration
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/debugfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/debugfs.txt
index 463f595..4f45f71 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/debugfs.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/debugfs.txt
@@ -105,7 +105,7 @@ a variable of type size_t.
Boolean values can be placed in debugfs with:
struct dentry *debugfs_create_bool(const char *name, umode_t mode,
- struct dentry *parent, u32 *value);
+ struct dentry *parent, bool *value);
A read on the resulting file will yield either Y (for non-zero values) or
N, followed by a newline. If written to, it will accept either upper- or
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