linux-kernel - patch driver-core-switch-firmware_class-to-uevent

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Date:	Thu, 12 Apr 2007 00:04:30 -0700
From:	<gregkh@...e.de>
To:	cornelia.huck@...ibm.com, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	eric.rannaud@...il.com, greg@...ah.com, gregkh@...e.de,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, ranty@...ian.org
Subject: patch driver-core-switch-firmware_class-to-uevent_suppress.patch added to gregkh-2.6 tree


This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

     Subject: Driver core: switch firmware_class to uevent_suppress.

to my gregkh-2.6 tree.  Its filename is

     driver-core-switch-firmware_class-to-uevent_suppress.patch

This tree can be found at 
    http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/gregkh/gregkh-2.6/patches/


>From cornelia.huck@...ibm.com Thu Mar 29 02:10:23 2007
From: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@...ibm.com>
Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2007 11:12:14 +0200
Subject: Driver core: switch firmware_class to uevent_suppress.
To: linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, Greg K-H <greg@...ah.com>, Manuel Estrada Sainz <ranty@...ian.org>, Eric Rannaud <eric.rannaud@...il.com>
Message-ID: <20070329111214.1c3aa250@...dolin.boeblingen.de.ibm.com>


From: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@...ibm.com>

Use uevent_suppress instead of returning an error code in
firmware_uevent(). Get rid of the now unneeded FW_STATUS_READY
and FW_STATUS_READY_NOHOTPLUG.

Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@...ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de>


---
 drivers/base/firmware_class.c |   10 ++--------
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

--- a/drivers/base/firmware_class.c
+++ b/drivers/base/firmware_class.c
@@ -31,8 +31,6 @@ enum {
 	FW_STATUS_LOADING,
 	FW_STATUS_DONE,
 	FW_STATUS_ABORT,
-	FW_STATUS_READY,
-	FW_STATUS_READY_NOHOTPLUG,
 };
 
 static int loading_timeout = 60;	/* In seconds */
@@ -96,9 +94,6 @@ static int firmware_uevent(struct device
 	struct firmware_priv *fw_priv = dev_get_drvdata(dev);
 	int i = 0, len = 0;
 
-	if (!test_bit(FW_STATUS_READY, &fw_priv->status))
-		return -ENODEV;
-
 	if (add_uevent_var(envp, num_envp, &i, buffer, buffer_size, &len,
 			   "FIRMWARE=%s", fw_priv->fw_id))
 		return -ENOMEM;
@@ -333,6 +328,7 @@ static int fw_register_device(struct dev
 	f_dev->parent = device;
 	f_dev->class = &firmware_class;
 	dev_set_drvdata(f_dev, fw_priv);
+	f_dev->uevent_suppress = 1;
 	retval = device_register(f_dev);
 	if (retval) {
 		printk(KERN_ERR "%s: device_register failed\n",
@@ -382,9 +378,7 @@ static int fw_setup_device(struct firmwa
 	}
 
 	if (uevent)
-                set_bit(FW_STATUS_READY, &fw_priv->status);
-        else
-                set_bit(FW_STATUS_READY_NOHOTPLUG, &fw_priv->status);
+		f_dev->uevent_suppress = 0;
 	*dev_p = f_dev;
 	goto out;
 


Patches currently in gregkh-2.6 which might be from cornelia.huck@...ibm.com are

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