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From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>,
	Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 10/28] SERIO: add the sysfs driver name to all modules
Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2007 10:51:38 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070208185138.GA18606@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d120d5000702080920k5ea09180i8d9608ac1c9857db@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, Feb 08, 2007 at 12:20:05PM -0500, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> Hi Greg,
> 
> On 2/7/07, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> wrote:
> >From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
> >
> >This adds the module name to all SERIO drivers, if they are built into
> >the kernel or not.  It will show up in /sys/modules/MODULE_NAME/drivers/
> >
> 
> What is this needed for?

All modules show up today in /sys/module/ no matter if they are built
into the kernel or not.

But, if they are built as a module, the /sys/module/drivers/ link was
present.  This is not consistant, as we always want to see that link, no
matter if the driver is built in or not.  So with this change, we now
always see the links.

I also fixed the PCI and USB drivers to do this as well.

Hope this helps explain it.

thanks,

greg k-h

      reply	other threads:[~2007-02-08 18:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-02-08  0:29 [GIT PATCH] Driver core patches for 2.6.20 Greg KH
2007-02-08  0:29 ` [PATCH 1/28] Kobject: make kobject apis more robust in handling NULL pointers Greg KH
2007-02-08  0:29   ` [PATCH 2/28] Driver core: convert pcmcia code to use struct device Greg KH
2007-02-08  0:29     ` [PATCH 3/28] Driver core: convert SPI " Greg KH
2007-02-08  0:29       ` [PATCH 4/28] Network: convert network devices to use struct device instead of class_device Greg KH
2007-02-08  0:29         ` [PATCH 5/28] driver core: Remove device_is_registered() in device_move() Greg KH
2007-02-08  0:29           ` [PATCH 6/28] driver core: Allow device_move(dev, NULL) Greg KH
2007-02-08  0:29             ` [PATCH 7/28] MODULES: add the module name for built in kernel drivers Greg KH
2007-02-08  0:29               ` [PATCH 8/28] Modules: only add drivers/ direcory if needed Greg KH
2007-02-08  0:29                 ` [PATCH 9/28] PCI: add the sysfs driver name to all modules Greg KH
2007-02-08  0:29                   ` [PATCH 10/28] SERIO: " Greg KH
2007-02-08  0:29                     ` [PATCH 11/28] USB: " Greg KH
2007-02-08  0:30                       ` [PATCH 12/28] /sys/modules/*/holders Greg KH
2007-02-08  0:30                         ` [PATCH 13/28] driver core fixes: make_class_name() retval checks Greg KH
2007-02-08  0:30                           ` [PATCH 14/28] driver core fixes: device_register() retval check in platform.c Greg KH
2007-02-08  0:30                             ` [PATCH 15/28] driver core: Don't stop probing on ->probe errors Greg KH
2007-02-08  0:30                               ` [PATCH 16/28] driver core: Change function call order in device_bind_driver() Greg KH
2007-02-08  0:30                                 ` [PATCH 17/28] Driver core: fix race in sysfs between sysfs_remove_file() and read()/write() Greg KH
2007-02-08  0:30                                   ` [PATCH 18/28] sysfs: suppress lockdep warnings Greg KH
2007-02-08  0:30                                     ` [PATCH 19/28] sysfs: kobject_put cleanup Greg KH
2007-02-08  0:30                                       ` [PATCH 20/28] kobject: " Greg KH
2007-02-08  0:30                                         ` [PATCH 21/28] sysfs: error handling in sysfs, fill_read_buffer() Greg KH
2007-02-08  0:30                                           ` [PATCH 22/28] HOWTO: Add a reference to Harbison and Steele Greg KH
2007-02-08  0:30                                             ` [PATCH 23/28] SYSFS: Fix missing include of list.h in sysfs.h Greg KH
2007-02-08  0:30                                               ` [PATCH 24/28] Driver core: add uevent vars for devices of a class Greg KH
2007-02-08  0:30                                                 ` [PATCH 25/28] Driver core: add device_type to struct device Greg KH
2007-02-08  0:30                                                   ` [PATCH 26/28] Driver core: allow to delay the uevent at device creation time Greg KH
2007-02-08  0:30                                                     ` [PATCH 27/28] Driver Core: Increase the default timeout value of the firmware subsystem Greg KH
2007-02-08  0:30                                                       ` [PATCH 28/28] sysfs: Shadow directory support Greg KH
2007-02-08 17:20                     ` [PATCH 10/28] SERIO: add the sysfs driver name to all modules Dmitry Torokhov
2007-02-08 18:51                       ` Greg KH [this message]

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