summaryrefslogtreecommitdiff
path: root/drivers/base/init.c
AgeCommit message (Collapse)Author
2009-09-15Driver Core: devtmpfs - kernel-maintained tmpfs-based /devKay Sievers
Devtmpfs lets the kernel create a tmpfs instance called devtmpfs very early at kernel initialization, before any driver-core device is registered. Every device with a major/minor will provide a device node in devtmpfs. Devtmpfs can be changed and altered by userspace at any time, and in any way needed - just like today's udev-mounted tmpfs. Unmodified udev versions will run just fine on top of it, and will recognize an already existing kernel-created device node and use it. The default node permissions are root:root 0600. Proper permissions and user/group ownership, meaningful symlinks, all other policy still needs to be applied by userspace. If a node is created by devtmps, devtmpfs will remove the device node when the device goes away. If the device node was created by userspace, or the devtmpfs created node was replaced by userspace, it will no longer be removed by devtmpfs. If it is requested to auto-mount it, it makes init=/bin/sh work without any further userspace support. /dev will be fully populated and dynamic, and always reflect the current device state of the kernel. With the commonly used dynamic device numbers, it solves the problem where static devices nodes may point to the wrong devices. It is intended to make the initial bootup logic simpler and more robust, by de-coupling the creation of the inital environment, to reliably run userspace processes, from a complex userspace bootstrap logic to provide a working /dev. Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Jan Blunck <jblunck@suse.de> Tested-By: Harald Hoyer <harald@redhat.com> Tested-By: Scott James Remnant <scott@ubuntu.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-01-25Driver core: coding style fixesGreg Kroah-Hartman
Fix up a number of coding style issues in the drivers/base/ directory that have annoyed me over the years. checkpatch.pl is now very happy. Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-01-25Driver core: use LIST_HEAD instead of call to INIT_LIST_HEAD in __initDenis Cheng
LIST_HEAD has been widely used, so switch to this simpler method. Signed-off-by: Denis Cheng <crquan@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-06-21[PATCH] Driver Core: Add /sys/hypervisor when neededMichael Holzheu
To have a home for all hypervisors, this patch creates /sys/hypervisor. A new config option SYS_HYPERVISOR is introduced, which should to be set by architecture dependent hypervisors (e.g. s390 or Xen). Acked-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Michael Holzheu <holzheu@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2005-10-30[PATCH] memory hotplug: sysfs and add/remove functionsDave Hansen
This adds generic memory add/remove and supporting functions for memory hotplug into a new file as well as a memory hotplug kernel config option. Individual architecture patches will follow. For now, disable memory hotplug when swsusp is enabled. There's a lot of churn there right now. We'll fix it up properly once it calms down. Signed-off-by: Matt Tolentino <matthew.e.tolentino@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-28[PATCH] drivers/base - fix sparse warningsBen Dooks
There are a number of sparse warnings from the latest sparse snapshot being generated from the drivers/base build. The main culprits are due to the initialisation functions not being declared in a header file. Also, the firmware.c file should include <linux/device.h> to get the prototype of firmware_register() and firmware_unregister(). This patch moves the init function declerations from the init.c file to the base.h, and ensures it is included in all the relevant c sources. It also adds <linux/device.h> to the included headers for firmware.c. The patch does not solve all the sparse errors generated, but reduces the count significantly. drivers/base/core.c:161:1: warning: symbol 'devices_subsys' was not declared. Should it be static? drivers/base/core.c:417:12: warning: symbol 'devices_init' was not declared. Should it be static? drivers/base/sys.c:253:6: warning: symbol 'sysdev_shutdown' was not declared. Should it be static? drivers/base/sys.c:326:5: warning: symbol 'sysdev_suspend' was not declared. Should it be static? drivers/base/sys.c:428:5: warning: symbol 'sysdev_resume' was not declared. Should it be static? drivers/base/sys.c:450:12: warning: symbol 'system_bus_init' was not declared. Should it be static? drivers/base/bus.c:133:1: warning: symbol 'bus_subsys' was not declared. Should it be static? drivers/base/bus.c:667:12: warning: symbol 'buses_init' was not declared. Should it be static? drivers/base/class.c:759:12: warning: symbol 'classes_init' was not declared. Should it be static? drivers/base/platform.c:313:12: warning: symbol 'platform_bus_init' was not declared. Should it be static? drivers/base/cpu.c:110:12: warning: symbol 'cpu_dev_init' was not declared. Should it be static? drivers/base/firmware.c:17:5: warning: symbol 'firmware_register' was not declared. Should it be static? drivers/base/firmware.c:23:6: warning: symbol 'firmware_unregister' was not declared. Should it be static? drivers/base/firmware.c:28:12: warning: symbol 'firmware_init' was not declared. Should it be static? drivers/base/init.c:28:13: warning: symbol 'driver_init' was not declared. Should it be static? drivers/base/dmapool.c:174:10: warning: implicit cast from nocast type drivers/base/attribute_container.c:439:1: warning: symbol 'attribute_container_init' was not declared. Should it be static? drivers/base/power/runtime.c:76:6: warning: symbol 'dpm_set_power_state' was not declared. Should it be static? Signed-off-by: Ben Dooks <ben-linux@fluff.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2005-04-16Linux-2.6.12-rc2Linus Torvalds
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!