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* kobject: Make Documentation/kobject.txt a little more coherent.Rusty Russell2009-01-061-2/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | While reading Documentation/kobject.txt: Note kobject_rename does perform any locking or have a solid notion of what names are valid so the provide must provide their own sanity checking and serialization. I expect better: You never see me hard with time word making sentence coherent stuff. Ever. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Acked-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* kobject: Fix kobject_rename and !CONFIG_SYSFSEric W. Biederman2008-10-161-0/+4
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | When looking at kobject_rename I found two bugs with that exist when sysfs support is disabled in the kernel. kobject_rename does not change the name on the kobject when sysfs support is not compiled in. kobject_rename without locking attempts to check the validity of a rename operation, which the kobject layer simply does not have the infrastructure to do. This patch documents the previously unstated requirement of kobject_rename that is the responsibility of the caller to provide mutual exclusion and to be certain that the new_name for the kobject is valid. This patch modifies sysfs_rename_dir in !CONFIG_SYSFS case to call kobject_set_name to actually change the kobject_name. This patch removes the bogus and misleading check in kobject_rename that attempts to see if a rename is valid. The check is bogus because we do not have the proper locking. The check is misleading because it looks like we can and do perform checking at the kobject level that we don't. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* kobject: Documentation Spelling PatchDavid Brigada2008-06-111-1/+1
| | | | | | Signed-off-by: David Brigada <brigad@rpi.edu> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* kobject: update the kobject/kset documentationGreg Kroah-Hartman2008-01-241-0/+386
| | | | | | | | | | | | This provides a much-needed kobject and kset documentation update. Thanks to Kay Sievers, Alan Stern, Jonathan Corbet, Randy Dunlap, Jan Engelhardt, and others for reviewing and providing help with this document. Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* kobject: remove old, outdated documentation.Greg Kroah-Hartman2008-01-241-289/+0
| | | | | | | | | As we are replacing the documentation, it's easier to do this in a two stage pass, delete the old file and add the new one. Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* driver core: remove subsystem_init()Greg Kroah-Hartman2007-10-121-1/+0
| | | | | | | There is only one user of it, and it is only a wrapper for kset_init(). Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* Driver core: clean up removed functions from the documentationCornelia Huck2007-10-121-19/+2
| | | | | | Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* kobject: update documentationCornelia Huck2007-07-301-119/+59
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Update kobject documentation: - Update structure definitions. - Remove documentation of removed struct subsystem. (First shot, uevent_ops probably need some documentation as well.) Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* Fix typos in Documentation/: 'D'-'E'Matt LaPlante2006-10-031-1/+1
| | | | | | | | This patch fixes typos in various Documentation txts. This patch addresses some words starting with the letters 'D'-'E'. Signed-off-by: Matt LaPlante <kernel1@cyberdogtech.com> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
* genhd.c reference in Documentation/kobjects.txtBrandon Philips2006-08-111-1/+1
| | | | | | | | block/genhd.c no longer in drivers/. Update Documentation/kobjects.txt Signed-off-by: Brandon Philips <brandon@ifup.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* Linux-2.6.12-rc2v2.6.12-rc2Linus Torvalds2005-04-161-0/+367
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!
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