linux.git/Documentation/filesystems/configfs, branch v3.2

Documentation: configfs examples crash fix

2011-05-27T00:12:34+00:00

When configfs_register_subsystem() fails, we unregister too many
subsystems in configfs_example_init.  Decrement i by one to not unregister
non-registered subsystem.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby 
Cc: Joel Becker 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Fix common misspellings

2011-03-31T14:26:23+00:00

Fixes generated by 'codespell' and manually reviewed.

Signed-off-by: Lucas De Marchi

Documentation: make configfs example code simpler, clearer

2010-11-18T23:00:46+00:00

If "p" is NULL then it will cause an oops when we pass it to
simple_strtoul().  In this case "p" can not be NULL so I removed the
check.  I also changed the check a little to make it more explicit that
we are testing whether p points to the NUL char.

Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter 
Acked-by: Joel Becker 
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

docsrc: build Documentation/ sources

2008-08-12T23:07:30+00:00

Currently source files in the Documentation/ sub-dir can easily bit-rot
since they are not generally buildable, either because they are hidden in
text files or because there are no Makefile rules for them.  This needs to
be fixed so that the source files remain usable and good examples of code
instead of bad examples.

Add the ability to build source files that are in the Documentation/ dir.
Add to Kconfig as "BUILD_DOCSRC" config symbol.

Use "CONFIG_BUILD_DOCSRC=1 make ..." to build objects from the
Documentation/ sources.  Or enable BUILD_DOCSRC in the *config system.
However, this symbol depends on HEADERS_CHECK since the header files need
to be installed (for userspace builds).

Built (using cross-tools) for x86-64, i386, alpha, ia64, sparc32,
sparc64, powerpc, sh, m68k, & mips.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap 
Reviewed-by: Sam Ravnborg 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] configfs: Convenience macros for attribute definition.

2008-07-31T23:21:13+00:00

Sysfs has the _ATTR() and _ATTR_RO() macros to make defining extended
form attributes easier.  configfs should have something similiar.

- _CONFIGFS_ATTR() and _CONFIGFS_ATTR_RO() are the counterparts to the
  sysfs macros.
- CONFIGFS_ATTR_STRUCT() creates the extended form attribute structure.
- CONFIGFS_ATTR_OPS() defines the show_attribute()/store_attribute()
  operations that call the show()/store() operations of the extended
  form configfs_attributes.

Signed-off-by: Joel Becker 
Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh

configfs: Allow ->make_item() and ->make_group() to return detailed errors.

2008-07-17T22:21:29+00:00

The configfs operations ->make_item() and ->make_group() currently
return a new item/group.  A return of NULL signifies an error.  Because
of this, -ENOMEM is the only return code bubbled up the stack.

Multiple folks have requested the ability to return specific error codes
when these operations fail.  This patch adds that ability by changing the
->make_item/group() ops to return ERR_PTR() values.  These errors are
bubbled up appropriately.  NULL returns are changed to -ENOMEM for
compatibility.

Also updated are the in-kernel users of configfs.

This is a rework of reverted commit 11c3b79218390a139f2d474ee1e983a672d5839a.

Signed-off-by: Joel Becker

Revert "configfs: Allow ->make_item() and ->make_group() to return detailed errors."

2008-07-17T21:53:48+00:00

This reverts commit 11c3b79218390a139f2d474ee1e983a672d5839a.  The code
will move to PTR_ERR().

Signed-off-by: Joel Becker

configfs: Allow ->make_item() and ->make_group() to return detailed errors.

2008-07-14T20:57:16+00:00

The configfs operations ->make_item() and ->make_group() currently
return a new item/group.  A return of NULL signifies an error.  Because
of this, -ENOMEM is the only return code bubbled up the stack.

Multiple folks have requested the ability to return specific error codes
when these operations fail.  This patch adds that ability by changing the
->make_item/group() ops to return an int.

Also updated are the in-kernel users of configfs.

Signed-off-by: Joel Becker

correct missing a double quote in configfs.txt

2008-02-03T14:10:08+00:00

Signed-off-by: Masatake YAMATO 
Acked-by: Joel Becker 
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk

some kmalloc/memset ->kzalloc (tree wide)

2007-07-19T17:04:50+00:00

Transform some calls to kmalloc/memset to a single kzalloc (or kcalloc).

Here is a short excerpt of the semantic patch performing
this transformation:

@@
type T2;
expression x;
identifier f,fld;
expression E;
expression E1,E2;
expression e1,e2,e3,y;
statement S;
@@

 x =
- kmalloc
+ kzalloc
  (E1,E2)
  ...  when != \(x->fld=E;\|y=f(...,x,...);\|f(...,x,...);\|x=E;\|while(...) S\|for(e1;e2;e3) S\)
- memset((T2)x,0,E1);

@@
expression E1,E2,E3;
@@

- kzalloc(E1 * E2,E3)
+ kcalloc(E1,E2,E3)

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: get kcalloc args the right way around]
Signed-off-by: Yoann Padioleau 
Cc: Richard Henderson 
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky 
Acked-by: Russell King 
Cc: Bryan Wu 
Acked-by: Jiri Slaby 
Cc: Dave Airlie 
Acked-by: Roland Dreier 
Cc: Jiri Kosina 
Acked-by: Dmitry Torokhov 
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt 
Acked-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab 
Acked-by: Pierre Ossman 
Cc: Jeff Garzik 
Cc: "David S. Miller" 
Acked-by: Greg KH 
Cc: James Bottomley 
Cc: "Antonino A. Daplas" 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds