I have some systems which need legacy sysfs due to old tools that are
making assumptions that a directory can never be a symlink to another
directory, and it's a big hazzle to compile separate kernels for them.

This patch turns CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED into a run time option
that can be switched on/off the kernel command line. This way
the same binary can be used in both cases with just a option
on the command line.

The old CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 option is still there to set
the default. I kept the weird name to not break existing
config files.

Also the compat code can be still completely disabled by undefining
CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED_SWITCH -- just the optimizer takes
care of this now instead of lots of ifdefs. This makes the code
look nicer.

v2: This is an updated version on top of Kay's patch to only
handle the block devices. I tested it on my old systems
and that seems to work.

Cc: axboe@kernel.dk
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

The new_name argument to device_rename() can be
const as kobject_rename's new_name argument is.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

Add BUS_NOTIFY_BIND_DRIVER as a bus notifier event.

For driver binding/unbinding we with this in
place have the following bus notifier events:
 - BUS_NOTIFY_BIND_DRIVER - before ->probe()
 - BUS_NOTIFY_BOUND_DRIVER - after ->probe()
 - BUS_NOTIFY_UNBIND_DRIVER - before ->remove()
 - BUS_NOTIFY_UNBOUND_DRIVER - after ->remove()

The event BUS_NOTIFY_BIND_DRIVER allows bus code
to be notified that ->probe() is about to be called.

Useful for bus code that needs to setup hardware before
the driver gets to run. With this in place platform
drivers can be loaded and unloaded as modules and the
new BIND event allows bus code to control for instance
device clocks that must be enabled before the driver
can be executed.

Without this patch there is no way for the bus code to
get notified that a modular driver is about to be probed.

Signed-off-by: Magnus Damm <damm@opensource.se>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

There is little rationale for marking bus_for_each_drv() __must_check.
It is more of an iteration helper than a real function. You don't know
in advance which callback it will be used on, so you have no clue how
important it can be to check the returned value. In practice, this
helper function can be used for best-effort tasks.

As a matter of fact, bus_for_each_dev() is not marked __must_check.
So remove it from bus_for_each_drv() as well. This is the same that
was done back in October 2006 by Russell King for
device_for_each_child(), for exactly the same reasons.

Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

Reduces an x86 defconfig text and data ~55k, .6% smaller.

$ size vmlinux*
   text	   data	    bss	    dec	    hex	filename
7205273	 716016	1366288	9287577	 8db799	vmlinux
7258890	 719768	1366288	9344946	 8e97b2	vmlinux.master

Uses %pV and struct va_format
Format arguments are verified before printk

The dev_info macro is converted to _dev_info because there are
existing uses of variables named dev_info in the kernel tree
like drivers/net/pcmcia/pcnet_cs.c

A dev_info macro is created to call _dev_info

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Merging in current state of Linus' tree to deal with merge conflicts and
build failures in vio.c after merge.

Conflicts:
	drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-cpm.c
	drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-mpc.c
	drivers/net/gianfar.c

Also fixed up one line in arch/powerpc/kernel/vio.c to use the
correct node pointer.

Signed-off-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>

OF-style matching can be available to any device, on any type of bus.
This patch allows any driver to provide an OF match table when CONFIG_OF
is enabled so that drivers can be bound against devices described in
the device tree.

Signed-off-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

Move complete knowledge of namespaces into the kobject layer
so we can use that information when reporting kobjects to
userspace.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

The semaphore is semantically a mutex. Convert it to a real mutex and
fix up a few places where code was relying on semaphore.h to be included
by device.h, as well as the users of the trylock function, as that value
is now reversed.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

Currently, platforms using CONFIG_OF add a 'struct device_node *of_node'
to dev->archdata.  However, with CONFIG_OF becoming generic for all
architectures, it makes sense for commonality to move it out of archdata
and into struct device proper.

This patch adds a struct device_node *of_node member to struct device
and updates all locations which currently write the device_node pointer
into archdata to also update dev->of_node.  Subsequent patches will
modify callers to use the archdata location and ultimately remove
the archdata member entirely.

Signed-off-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
CC: Michal Simek <monstr@monstr.eu>
CC: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
CC: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
CC: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
CC: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
CC: Jeremy Kerr <jeremy.kerr@canonical.com>
CC: microblaze-uclinux@itee.uq.edu.au
CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
CC: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org
CC: sparclinux@vger.kernel.org