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Eric W. Biederman
030c1d2bfc kobject: Fix kobject_rename and !CONFIG_SYSFS
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>
2008-10-16 09:24:52 -07:00
David Brigada
acccafe9ca kobject: Documentation Spelling Patch
Signed-off-by: David Brigada <brigad@rpi.edu>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-06-11 16:50:40 -07:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman
36d78d6c5b kobject: update the kobject/kset documentation
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>
2008-01-24 20:40:41 -08:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman
5008743dc7 kobject: remove old, outdated documentation.
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>
2008-01-24 20:40:41 -08:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman
e4bc16621d driver core: remove subsystem_init()
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>
2007-10-12 14:51:11 -07:00
Cornelia Huck
d716551e18 Driver core: clean up removed functions from the documentation
Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-10-12 14:51:02 -07:00
Cornelia Huck
f285ea0580 kobject: update documentation
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>
2007-07-30 14:25:13 -07:00
Matt LaPlante
fff9289b21 Fix typos in Documentation/: 'D'-'E'
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>
2006-10-03 22:47:42 +02:00
Brandon Philips
e9539ee73a genhd.c reference in Documentation/kobjects.txt
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>
2006-08-11 14:06:05 -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