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Linus Torvalds 61a091827e Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/usb-2.6
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/usb-2.6: (97 commits)
  USB: qcserial: add device id for HP devices
  USB: isp1760: Add a delay before reading the SKIPMAP registers in isp1760-hcd.c
  USB: allow malformed LANGID descriptors
  USB: pxa27x_udc: typo fixes and code cleanups
  USB: gadget: gadget zero uses new suspend/resume hooks
  USB: gadget: composite device-level suspend/resume hooks
  USB: r8a66597-hcd: suspend/resume support
  USB: more u32 conversion after transfer_buffer_length and actual_length
  USB: Fix cp2101 USB serial device driver termios functions for console use
  USB: CP2101 New Device ID
  USB: ipaq: handle 4 endpoint devices
  USB: S3C: Move usb-control.h to platform include
  USB: ohci-hcd: Add ARCH_S3C24XX to the ohci-s3c2410.c glue
  USB: pedantic: spelling correction in comment for ch9.h
  USB: host: fix sparse warning: Using plain integer as NULL pointer
  USB: ohci-s3c2410: fix name of bus clock
  USB: ohci-s3c2410: remove <mach/hardware.h> include
  USB: serial: rename cp2101 driver to cp210x
  USB: CP2101 Reduce Error Logging
  USB: CP2101 Support AN205 baud rates
  ...
2009-03-26 11:17:39 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 0c93ea4064 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core-2.6
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core-2.6: (61 commits)
  Dynamic debug: fix pr_fmt() build error
  Dynamic debug: allow simple quoting of words
  dynamic debug: update docs
  dynamic debug: combine dprintk and dynamic printk
  sysfs: fix some bin_vm_ops errors
  kobject: don't block for each kobject_uevent
  sysfs: only allow one scheduled removal callback per kobj
  Driver core: Fix device_move() vs. dpm list ordering, v2
  Driver core: some cleanup on drivers/base/sys.c
  Driver core: implement uevent suppress in kobject
  vcs: hook sysfs devices into object lifetime instead of "binding"
  driver core: fix passing platform_data
  driver core: move platform_data into platform_device
  sysfs: don't block indefinitely for unmapped files.
  driver core: move knode_bus into private structure
  driver core: move knode_driver into private structure
  driver core: move klist_children into private structure
  driver core: create a private portion of struct device
  driver core: remove polling for driver_probe_done(v5)
  sysfs: reference sysfs_dirent from sysfs inodes
  ...

Fixed conflicts in drivers/sh/maple/maple.c manually
2009-03-26 11:17:04 -07:00
Linus Torvalds bc2fd381d8 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bart/ide-2.6
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bart/ide-2.6: (53 commits)
  ide: use try_to_identify() in ide_driveid_update()
  ide: clear drive IRQ after re-enabling local IRQs in ide_driveid_update()
  ide: sanitize SELECT_MASK() usage in ide_driveid_update()
  ide: classify device type in do_probe()
  ide: remove broken EXABYTENEST support
  ide: shorten timeout value in ide_driveid_update()
  ide: propagate AltStatus workarounds to ide_driveid_update()
  ide: fix kmalloc() failure handling in ide_driveid_update()
  mn10300: remove <asm/ide.h>
  frv: remove <asm/ide.h>
  ide: remove pciirq argument from ide_pci_setup_ports()
  ide: fix ->init_chipset method to return 'int' value
  ide: remove try_to_identify() wrapper
  ide: remove no longer needed IRQ auto-probing from try_to_identify() (v2)
  ide: remove no longer needed IRQ fallback code from hwif_init()
  amd74xx: remove no longer needed ->init_hwif method
  ide: remove no longer needed IDE_HFLAG[_FORCE]_LEGACY_IRQS
  ide: use ide_pci_is_in_compatibility_mode() in ide_pci_init_{one,two}()
  ide: use pci_get_legacy_ide_irq() in ide_pci_init_{one,two}()
  ide: handle IDE_HFLAG[_FORCE]_LEGACY_IRQS in ide_pci_init_{one,two}()
  ...
2009-03-26 11:13:06 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 928a726b0e Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lethal/sh-2.6
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lethal/sh-2.6: (96 commits)
  sh: add support for SMSC Polaris platform
  sh: fix the HD64461 level-triggered interrupts handling
  sh: sh-rtc wakeup support
  sh: sh-rtc invalid time rework
  sh: sh-rtc carry interrupt rework
  sh: disallow kexec virtual entry
  sh: kexec jump: fix for ftrace.
  sh: kexec: Drop SR.BL bit toggling.
  sh: add kexec jump support
  sh: rework kexec segment code
  sh: simplify kexec vbr code
  sh: Flush only the needed range when unmapping a VMA.
  sh: Update debugfs ASID dumping for 16-bit ASID support.
  sh: tlb-pteaex: Kill off legacy PTEA updates.
  sh: Support for extended ASIDs on PTEAEX-capable SH-X3 cores.
  sh: sh7763rdp: Change IRQ number for sh_eth of sh7763rdp
  sh: espt-giga board support
  sh: dma: Make G2 DMA configurable.
  sh: dma: Make PVR2 DMA configurable.
  sh: Move IRQ multi definition of DMAC to defconfig
  ...
2009-03-26 11:11:23 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 8ff64b539b Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/steve/gfs2-2.6-nmw
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/steve/gfs2-2.6-nmw:
  GFS2: Fix freeze issue
  Fix a minor bug in the previous patch
  GFS2: Clean up of glops.c
  GFS2: Fix locking bug in failed shared to exclusive conversion
  GFS2: Pagecache usage optimization on GFS2
  GFS2: fix sparse warning: Should it be static?
  GFS2: fix sparse warnings: constant is so big it is ...
  GFS2: Support quota/noquota mount arguments
  GFS2: Fix alignment issue and tidy gfs2_bitfit
  GFS2: Add a "demote a glock" interface to sysfs
  GFS2: Expose UUID via sysfs/uevent
  GFS2: Support generation of discard requests
  GFS2: Fix deadlock on journal flush
  GFS2: Fix error path ref counting for root inode
  GFS2: Remove unused field from glock
  GFS2: Merge lock_dlm module into GFS2
  GFS2: Remove "double" locking in quota
  GFS2: change gfs2_quota_scan into a shrinker
  GFS2: Bring back lvb-related stuff to lock_nolock to support quotas
  GFS2: Fix remount argument parsing
2009-03-26 11:08:47 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 61a9dc26d3 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/hskinnemoen/avr32-2.6
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/hskinnemoen/avr32-2.6:
  avr32: remove duplicated #include
  avr32: fix out-of-range rjmp instruction on large kernels
  avr32: Fix out-of-range rcalls in large kernels
2009-03-26 11:05:58 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 502012534d Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tiwai/sound-2.6
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tiwai/sound-2.6: (430 commits)
  ALSA: hda - Add quirk for Acer Ferrari 5000
  ALSA: hda - Use cached calls to get widget caps and pin caps
  ALSA: hda - Don't create empty/single-item input source
  ALSA: hda - Fix the wrong pin-cap check in patch_realtek.c
  ALSA: hda - Cache pin-cap values
  ALSA: hda - Avoid output amp manipulation to digital mic pins
  ALSA: hda - Add function id to proc output
  ALSA: pcm - Safer boundary checks
  ALSA: hda - Detect digital-mic inputs on ALC663 / ALC272
  ALSA: sound/ali5451: typo: s/resouces/resources/
  ALSA: hda - Don't show the current connection for power widgets
  ALSA: Fix wrong pointer to dev_err() in arm/pxa2xx-ac97-lib.c
  ASoC: Declare Headset as Mic and Headphone widgets for SDP3430
  ASoC: OMAP: N810: Add more jack functions
  ASoC: OMAP: N810: Mark not connected input pins
  ASoC: Add FLL support for WM8400
  ALSA: hda - Don't reset stream at each prepare callback
  ALSA: hda - Don't reset BDL unnecessarily
  ALSA: pcm - Fix delta calculation at boundary overlap
  ALSA: pcm - Reset invalid position even without debug option
  ...
2009-03-26 11:05:17 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 562f477a54 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6: (29 commits)
  crypto: sha512-s390 - Add missing block size
  hwrng: timeriomem - Breaks an allyesconfig build on s390:
  nlattr: Fix build error with NET off
  crypto: testmgr - add zlib test
  crypto: zlib - New zlib crypto module, using pcomp
  crypto: testmgr - Add support for the pcomp interface
  crypto: compress - Add pcomp interface
  netlink: Move netlink attribute parsing support to lib
  crypto: Fix dead links
  hwrng: timeriomem - New driver
  crypto: chainiv - Use kcrypto_wq instead of keventd_wq
  crypto: cryptd - Per-CPU thread implementation based on kcrypto_wq
  crypto: api - Use dedicated workqueue for crypto subsystem
  crypto: testmgr - Test skciphers with no IVs
  crypto: aead - Avoid infinite loop when nivaead fails selftest
  crypto: skcipher - Avoid infinite loop when cipher fails selftest
  crypto: api - Fix crypto_alloc_tfm/create_create_tfm return convention
  crypto: api - crypto_alg_mod_lookup either tested or untested
  crypto: amcc - Add crypt4xx driver
  crypto: ansi_cprng - Add maintainer
  ...
2009-03-26 11:04:34 -07:00
Linus Torvalds ada19a31a9 Merge branch 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davej/cpufreq
* 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davej/cpufreq: (35 commits)
  [CPUFREQ] Prevent p4-clockmod from auto-binding to the ondemand governor.
  [CPUFREQ] Make cpufreq-nforce2 less obnoxious
  [CPUFREQ] p4-clockmod reports wrong frequency.
  [CPUFREQ] powernow-k8: Use a common exit path.
  [CPUFREQ] Change link order of x86 cpufreq modules
  [CPUFREQ] conservative: remove 10x from def_sampling_rate
  [CPUFREQ] conservative: fixup governor to function more like ondemand logic
  [CPUFREQ] conservative: fix dbs_cpufreq_notifier so freq is not locked
  [CPUFREQ] conservative: amend author's email address
  [CPUFREQ] Use swap() in longhaul.c
  [CPUFREQ] checkpatch cleanups for acpi-cpufreq
  [CPUFREQ] powernow-k8: Only print error message once, not per core.
  [CPUFREQ] ondemand/conservative: sanitize sampling_rate restrictions
  [CPUFREQ] ondemand/conservative: deprecate sampling_rate{min,max}
  [CPUFREQ] powernow-k8: Always compile powernow-k8 driver with ACPI support
  [CPUFREQ] Introduce /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu*/cpufreq/cpuinfo_transition_latency
  [CPUFREQ] checkpatch cleanups for powernow-k8
  [CPUFREQ] checkpatch cleanups for ondemand governor.
  [CPUFREQ] checkpatch cleanups for powernow-k7
  [CPUFREQ] checkpatch cleanups for speedstep related drivers.
  ...
2009-03-26 11:04:08 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 8d80ce80e1 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/security-testing-2.6
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/security-testing-2.6: (71 commits)
  SELinux: inode_doinit_with_dentry drop no dentry printk
  SELinux: new permission between tty audit and audit socket
  SELinux: open perm for sock files
  smack: fixes for unlabeled host support
  keys: make procfiles per-user-namespace
  keys: skip keys from another user namespace
  keys: consider user namespace in key_permission
  keys: distinguish per-uid keys in different namespaces
  integrity: ima iint radix_tree_lookup locking fix
  TOMOYO: Do not call tomoyo_realpath_init unless registered.
  integrity: ima scatterlist bug fix
  smack: fix lots of kernel-doc notation
  TOMOYO: Don't create securityfs entries unless registered.
  TOMOYO: Fix exception policy read failure.
  SELinux: convert the avc cache hash list to an hlist
  SELinux: code readability with avc_cache
  SELinux: remove unused av.decided field
  SELinux: more careful use of avd in avc_has_perm_noaudit
  SELinux: remove the unused ae.used
  SELinux: check seqno when updating an avc_node
  ...
2009-03-26 11:03:39 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 1646df40bb Merge branch 'upstream' of git://ftp.linux-mips.org/pub/scm/upstream-linus
* 'upstream' of git://ftp.linux-mips.org/pub/scm/upstream-linus:
  MIPS: R2: Fix problem with code that incorrectly modifies ebase.
  MIPS: Change {set,clear,change}_c0_<foo> to return old value.
  MIPS: compat: Remove duplicated #include
  MIPS: VR5500: Enable prefetch
  MIPS: Fix oops in dma_unmap_page on not coherent mips platforms
2009-03-26 11:02:50 -07:00
Wu Fengguang 1b5e62b42b writeback: double the dirty thresholds
Enlarge default dirty ratios from 5/10 to 10/20.  This fixes [Bug
#12809] iozone regression with 2.6.29-rc6.

The iozone benchmarks are performed on a 1200M file, with 8GB ram.

  iozone -i 0 -i 1 -i 2 -i 3 -i 4 -r 4k -s 64k -s 512m -s 1200m -b tmp.xls
  iozone -B -r 4k -s 64k -s 512m -s 1200m -b tmp.xls

The performance regression is triggered by commit 1cf6e7d83bf3(mm: task
dirty accounting fix), which makes more correct/thorough dirty
accounting.

The default 5/10 dirty ratios were picked (a) with the old dirty logic
and (b) largely at random and (c) designed to be aggressive.  In
particular, that (a) means that having fixed some of the dirty
accounting, maybe the real bug is now that it was always too aggressive,
just hidden by an accounting issue.

The enlarged 10/20 dirty ratios are just about enough to fix the regression.

[ We will have to look at how this affects the old fsync() latency issue,
  but that probably will need independent work.  - Linus ]

Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Reported-by: "Lin, Ming M" <ming.m.lin@intel.com>
Tested-by: "Lin, Ming M" <ming.m.lin@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-03-26 11:01:11 -07:00
Matthew Garrett 0a1c01c947 Make relatime default
Change the default behaviour of the kernel to use relatime for all
filesystems. This can be overridden with the "strictatime" mount
option.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-03-26 11:01:10 -07:00
Matthew Garrett d0adde574b Add a strictatime mount option
Add support for explicitly requesting full atime updates. This makes it
possible for kernels to default to relatime but still allow userspace to
override it.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-03-26 10:56:35 -07:00
Matthew Garrett 11ff6f05f1 Allow relatime to update atime once a day
Allow atime to be updated once per day even with relatime. This lets
utilities like tmpreaper (which delete files based on last access time)
continue working, making relatime a plausible default for distributions.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Valerie Aurora Henson <vaurora@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-03-26 10:48:13 -07:00
Greg Banks e6e66b02e1 Dynamic debug: fix pr_fmt() build error
When CONFIG_DYNAMIC_DEBUG is enabled, allow callers of pr_debug()
to provide their own definition of pr_fmt() even if that definition
uses tricks like

#define pr_fmt(fmt) "%s:" fmt, __func__

Signed-off-by: Greg Banks <gnb@sgi.com>
Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <Geert.Uytterhoeven@sonycom.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-03-24 16:38:27 -07:00
Greg Banks 9898abb3d2 Dynamic debug: allow simple quoting of words
Allow simple quoting of words in the dynamic debug control language.

This allows more natural specification when using the control language
to match against printk formats, e.g

#echo -n 'format "Setting node for non-present cpu" +p' >
	/mnt/debugfs/dynamic_debug/control

instead of

#echo -n 'format Setting\040node\040for\040non-present\040cpu +p' >
	/mnt/debugfs/dynamic_debug/control

Adjust the dynamic debug documention to describe that and provide a
new example.  Adjust the existing examples in the documentation to
reflect the current whitespace escaping behaviour when reading the
control file.  Fix some minor documentation trailing whitespace.

Signed-off-by: Greg Banks <gnb@melbourne.sgi.com>
Acked-by: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-03-24 16:38:27 -07:00
Jason Baron 86151fdf38 dynamic debug: update docs
updates the documentation for 'dynamic debug' feature.

Signed-off-by: Greg Banks <gnb@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-03-24 16:38:27 -07:00
Jason Baron e9d376f0fa dynamic debug: combine dprintk and dynamic printk
This patch combines Greg Bank's dprintk() work with the existing dynamic
printk patchset, we are now calling it 'dynamic debug'.

The new feature of this patchset is a richer /debugfs control file interface,
(an example output from my system is at the bottom), which allows fined grained
control over the the debug output. The output can be controlled by function,
file, module, format string, and line number.

for example, enabled all debug messages in module 'nf_conntrack':

echo -n 'module nf_conntrack +p' > /mnt/debugfs/dynamic_debug/control

to disable them:

echo -n 'module nf_conntrack -p' > /mnt/debugfs/dynamic_debug/control

A further explanation can be found in the documentation patch.

Signed-off-by: Greg Banks <gnb@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-03-24 16:38:26 -07:00
Hugh Dickins 095160aee9 sysfs: fix some bin_vm_ops errors
Commit 86c9508eb1c0ce5aa07b5cf1d36b60c54efc3d7a
"sysfs: don't block indefinitely for unmapped files" in linux-next
crashes the PowerMac G5 when X starts up.  It's caught out by the way
powerpc's pci_mmap of legacy_mem uses shmem_zero_setup(), substituting
a new vma->vm_file whose private_data no longer points to the bin_buffer
(substitution done because some versions of X crash if that mmap fails).

The fix to this is straightforward: the original vm_file is fput() in
that case, so this mmap won't block sysfs at all, so just don't switch
over to bin_vm_ops if vm_file has changed.

But more fixes made before realizing that was the problem:-

It should not be an error if bin_page_mkwrite() finds no underlying
page_mkwrite().

Check that a file already mmap'ed has the same underlying vm_ops
_before_ pointing vma->vm_ops at bin_vm_ops.

If the file being mmap'ed is a shmem/tmpfs file, don't fail the mmap
on CONFIG_NUMA=y, just because that has a set_policy and get_policy:
provide bin_set_policy, bin_get_policy and bin_migrate.

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Acked-by: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@aristanetworks.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-03-24 16:38:26 -07:00
Arjan van de Ven f520360d93 kobject: don't block for each kobject_uevent
Right now, the kobject_uevent code blocks for each uevent that's being
generated, due to using (for hystoric reasons) UHM_WAIT_EXEC as flag to
call_usermode_helper().  Specifically, the effect is that each uevent
that is being sent causes the code to wake up keventd, then block until
keventd has processed the work. Needless to say, this happens many times
during the system boot.

This patches changes that to UHN_NO_WAIT (brilliant name for a constant
btw) so that we only schedule the work to fire the uevent message, but
do not wait for keventd to process the work.

This removes one of the bottlenecks during boot; each one of them is
only a small effect, but the sum of them does add up.

[Note, distros that need this are broken, they should be setting
CONFIG_UEVENT_HELPER_PATH to "", that way this code path will never be
excuted at all -- gregkh]

Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-03-24 16:38:26 -07:00
Alex Chiang 669420644c sysfs: only allow one scheduled removal callback per kobj
The only way for a sysfs attribute to remove itself (without
deadlock) is to use the sysfs_schedule_callback() interface.

Vegard Nossum discovered that a poorly written sysfs ->store
callback can repeatedly schedule remove callbacks on the same
device over and over, e.g.

	$ while true ; do echo 1 > /sys/devices/.../remove ; done

If the 'remove' attribute uses the sysfs_schedule_callback API
and also does not protect itself from concurrent accesses, its
callback handler will be called multiple times, and will
eventually attempt to perform operations on a freed kobject,
leading to many problems.

Instead of requiring all callers of sysfs_schedule_callback to
implement their own synchronization, provide the protection in
the infrastructure.

Now, sysfs_schedule_callback will only allow one scheduled
callback per kobject. On subsequent calls with the same kobject,
return -EAGAIN.

This is a short term fix. The long term fix is to allow sysfs
attributes to remove themselves directly, without any of this
callback hokey pokey.

[cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com: s390 ccwgroup bits]

Reported-by: vegard.nossum@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Alex Chiang <achiang@hp.com>
Acked-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-03-24 16:38:26 -07:00
Cornelia Huck ffa6a7054d Driver core: Fix device_move() vs. dpm list ordering, v2
dpm_list currently relies on the fact that child devices will
be registered after their parents to get a correct suspend
order. Using device_move() however destroys this assumption, as
an already registered device may be moved under a newly registered
one.

This patch adds a new argument to device_move(), allowing callers
to specify how dpm_list should be adapted.

Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-03-24 16:38:26 -07:00
Zhenwen Xu 60530afe1e Driver core: some cleanup on drivers/base/sys.c
do some cleanup on drivers/base/sys.c


Signed-off-by: Zhenwen Xu <helight.xu@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-03-24 16:38:26 -07:00
Ming Lei f67f129e51 Driver core: implement uevent suppress in kobject
This patch implements uevent suppress in kobject and removes it
from struct device, based on the following ideas:

1,Uevent sending should be one attribute of kobject, so suppressing it
in kobject layer is more natural than in device layer. By this way,
we can do it for other objects embedded with kobject.

2,It may save several bytes for each instance of struct device.(On my
omap3(32bit ARM) based box, can save 8bytes per device object)

This patch also introduces dev_set|get_uevent_suppress() helpers to
set and query uevent_suppress attribute in case to help kobject
as private part of struct device in future.

[This version is against the latest driver-core patch set of Greg,please
ignore the last version.]

Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <tom.leiming@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-03-24 16:38:26 -07:00