Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH mm] sysfs: add /sys/dev/usb to handle CONFIG_USB_DEVICE_CLASS=y | From | Kay Sievers <> | Date | Fri, 18 Apr 2008 09:54:51 +0200 |
| |
On Thu, 2008-04-17 at 21:59 -0700, Dan Williams wrote: > On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 8:21 PM, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> wrote: > > On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 07:11:03PM -0700, Dan Williams wrote: > > > > > The deprecated config option CONFIG_USB_DEVICE_CLASS causes class devices > > > with duplicate major:minor numbers to be registered. In effect they > > > represent a usb specific address space for major:minor numbers so add 'usb' > > > as a directory along side 'block' and 'char'. > > > > Hm, no they do not, they are not a new address space, we are just > > reusing them as the other user wasn't using them, and the code is > > deprecated and will be removed eventually. Neither of these char > > devices are really hooked up to anything within the kernel, so it > > doesn't matter yet. > > > > I wonder how many other duplicates we have floating around... > > > > Hm, so how about making this an opt-in capability of the class? At > device_add() time the class is queried to see if a link should be > created in /sys/dev/block or /sys/dev/char?
This could work, yes. We could just set a flag in the class, that prevents the device entries in /sys/dev/.
> Although, this leads to > inconsistent coverage. But maybe that does not matter as many of > these character devices do not have interesting attributes to be > accessed?
The usual case is that one of the duplicated /sys devices is deprecated, so it should be fine, to always point to the new one.
> Sigh, I am beginning to wonder if the character device side > of this capability is a solution looking for a problem...
We will find a solution. :)
The following should work for the common case.
Best, Kay
From: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Subject: sysfs: fix duplicated device number registration in /sys/dev/
If the parent device has the same dev_t, we skip the registration for the device number at /sys/dev.
Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> ---
core.c | 17 +++++++++++------ 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/base/core.c b/drivers/base/core.c index de925f8..afedadb 100644 --- a/drivers/base/core.c +++ b/drivers/base/core.c @@ -821,10 +821,13 @@ int device_add(struct device *dev) if (error) goto ueventattrError; - format_dev_t(devt_str, dev->devt); - error = sysfs_create_link(kobj, &dev->kobj, devt_str); - if (error) - goto devtattrError; + /* do not create /sys/dev/ entry if parent already did */ + if (!(dev->parent && dev->parent->devt == dev->devt)) { + format_dev_t(devt_str, dev->devt); + error = sysfs_create_link(kobj, &dev->kobj, devt_str); + if (error) + goto devtattrError; + } } error = device_add_class_symlinks(dev); @@ -950,8 +953,10 @@ void device_del(struct device *dev) if (parent) klist_del(&dev->knode_parent); if (MAJOR(dev->devt)) { - format_dev_t(devt_str, dev->devt); - sysfs_remove_link(device_to_dev_kobj(dev), devt_str); + if (!(parent && parent->devt == dev->devt)) { + format_dev_t(devt_str, dev->devt); + sysfs_remove_link(device_to_dev_kobj(dev), devt_str); + } device_remove_file(dev, &devt_attr); } if (dev->class) {
-- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
| |