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8 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Tejun Heo
7b595756ec sysfs: kill unnecessary attribute->owner
sysfs is now completely out of driver/module lifetime game.  After
deletion, a sysfs node doesn't access anything outside sysfs proper,
so there's no reason to hold onto the attribute owners.  Note that
often the wrong modules were accounted for as owners leading to
accessing removed modules.

This patch kills now unnecessary attribute->owner.  Note that with
this change, userland holding a sysfs node does not prevent the
backing module from being unloaded.

For more info regarding lifetime rule cleanup, please read the
following message.

  http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/510293

(tweaked by Greg to not delete the field just yet, to make it easier to
merge things properly.)

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Cc: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-07-11 16:09:06 -07:00
Stephen Hemminger
9cf637473c bridge: add sysfs hook to flush forwarding table
The RSTP daemon needs to be able to flush all dynamic forwarding
entries in the case of topology change.

This is a temporary interface. It will change to a netlink interface
before RSTP daemon is officially released.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>
2007-04-25 22:28:47 -07:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman
43cb76d91e Network: convert network devices to use struct device instead of class_device
This lets the network core have the ability to handle suspend/resume
issues, if it wants to.

Thanks to Frederik Deweerdt <frederik.deweerdt@gmail.com> for the arm
driver fixes.

Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-02-07 10:37:11 -08:00
Stephen Hemminger
bab1deea30 [BRIDGE]: fix error handling for add interface to bridge
Refactor how the bridge code interacts with kobject system.
It should still use kobjects even if not using sysfs.
Fix the error unwind handling in br_add_if.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-02-09 17:10:12 -08:00
Randy Dunlap
4fc268d24c [PATCH] capable/capability.h (net/)
net: Use <linux/capability.h> where capable() is used.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-11 18:42:14 -08:00
Kay Sievers
312c004d36 [PATCH] driver core: replace "hotplug" by "uevent"
Leave the overloaded "hotplug" word to susbsystems which are handling
real devices. The driver core does not "plug" anything, it just exports
the state to userspace and generates events.

Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-01-04 16:18:08 -08:00
kay.sievers@vrfy.org
f0e035f4b6 [PATCH] kobject/hotplug split - net bridge
kobject_add() and kobject_del() don't emit hotplug events anymore.
We need to do it ourselves now.

Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2005-04-18 21:57:37 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
1da177e4c3 Linux-2.6.12-rc2
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!
2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00