linux.git/Documentation/kobject.txt, branch v2.6.28

kobject: Fix kobject_rename and !CONFIG_SYSFS

2008-10-16T16:24:52+00:00

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 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

kobject: Documentation Spelling Patch

2008-06-11T23:50:40+00:00

Signed-off-by: David Brigada 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

kobject: update the kobject/kset documentation

2008-01-25T04:40:41+00:00

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 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

kobject: remove old, outdated documentation.

2008-01-25T04:40:41+00:00

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 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

driver core: remove subsystem_init()

2007-10-12T21:51:11+00:00

There is only one user of it, and it is only a wrapper for kset_init().

Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

Driver core: clean up removed functions from the documentation

2007-10-12T21:51:02+00:00

Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

kobject: update documentation

2007-07-30T21:25:13+00:00

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 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

Fix typos in Documentation/: 'D'-'E'

2006-10-03T20:47:42+00:00

This patch fixes typos in various Documentation txts. This patch addresses
some words starting with the letters 'D'-'E'.

Signed-off-by: Matt LaPlante 
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk

genhd.c reference in Documentation/kobjects.txt

2006-08-11T21:06:05+00:00

block/genhd.c no longer in drivers/.  Update Documentation/kobjects.txt

Signed-off-by: Brandon Philips 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

Linux-2.6.12-rc2

2005-04-16T22:20:36+00:00

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!