RE: [PATCH] add transport class symlink to device object

From: James . Smart
Date: Thu Aug 18 2005 - 06:33:56 EST


I can live with this. I would have liked the "class:" prefix, but the name
does start to get long, and this is ok.

-- james s

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Greg KH [mailto:greg@xxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Thursday, August 18, 2005 2:37 AM
> To: James Bottomley
> Cc: Matthew Wilcox; Smart, James; Andrew Morton; SCSI Mailing List;
> Linux Kernel; Alan Cox; Russell King; Dmitry Torokhov
> Subject: Re: [PATCH] add transport class symlink to device object
>
>
> On Wed, Aug 17, 2005 at 10:23:11PM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Mon, Aug 15, 2005 at 05:41:17PM -0500, James Bottomley wrote:
> > > Actually, isn't the fix to all of this to combine Greg and James'
> > > patches?
> >
> > Yes it is.
> >
> > > The Greg one fails in SCSI because we don't have unique
> class device
> > > names (by convention we use the same name as the device
> bus_id) and
> > > James' one fails for ttys because the class name isn't
> unique. However,
> > > if the link were derived from something like
> > >
> > > <class name>:<class device name>
> > >
> > > Then is would be unique in both cases.
> >
> > I agree.
> >
> > > Unless anyone can think of any more failing cases?
> >
> > I'll try this out and see if anything breaks :)
>
> Ok, here's the patch. I like it, and I think it will prevent any
> duplicate symlinks from happening. Anyone have any objections?
>
> thanks,
>
> greg k-h
>
> --------------
>
> Driver core: link device and all class devices derived from it.
>
> To ease the task of locating class devices derived from a certain
> device create symlinks from parent device to its class devices.
> Change USB host class device name from usbX to usb_hostX to avoid
> conflict when creating aforementioned links.
>
> Tweaked by Greg to have the symlink be "class_name:class_device_name"
> in order to prevent duplicate links.
>
> Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@xxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxx>
>
> ---
> drivers/base/class.c | 33 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
> drivers/usb/core/hcd.c | 2 +-
> 2 files changed, 32 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> --- gregkh-2.6.orig/drivers/base/class.c 2005-08-17
> 23:27:02.000000000 -0700
> +++ gregkh-2.6/drivers/base/class.c 2005-08-17
> 23:27:25.000000000 -0700
> @@ -452,10 +452,29 @@ void class_device_initialize(struct clas
> INIT_LIST_HEAD(&class_dev->node);
> }
>
> +static char *make_class_name(struct class_device *class_dev)
> +{
> + char *name;
> + int size;
> +
> + size = strlen(class_dev->class->name) +
> + strlen(kobject_name(&class_dev->kobj)) + 2;
> +
> + name = kmalloc(size, GFP_KERNEL);
> + if (!name)
> + return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
> +
> + strcpy(name, class_dev->class->name);
> + strcat(name, ":");
> + strcat(name, kobject_name(&class_dev->kobj));
> + return name;
> +}
> +
> int class_device_add(struct class_device *class_dev)
> {
> struct class * parent = NULL;
> struct class_interface * class_intf;
> + char *class_name = NULL;
> int error;
>
> class_dev = class_device_get(class_dev);
> @@ -500,9 +519,13 @@ int class_device_add(struct class_device
> }
>
> class_device_add_attrs(class_dev);
> - if (class_dev->dev)
> + if (class_dev->dev) {
> + class_name = make_class_name(class_dev);
> sysfs_create_link(&class_dev->kobj,
> &class_dev->dev->kobj, "device");
> + sysfs_create_link(&class_dev->dev->kobj,
> &class_dev->kobj,
> + class_name);
> + }
>
> /* notify any interfaces this device is now here */
> if (parent) {
> @@ -519,6 +542,7 @@ int class_device_add(struct class_device
> if (error && parent)
> class_put(parent);
> class_device_put(class_dev);
> + kfree(class_name);
> return error;
> }
>
> @@ -584,6 +608,7 @@ void class_device_del(struct class_devic
> {
> struct class * parent = class_dev->class;
> struct class_interface * class_intf;
> + char *class_name = NULL;
>
> if (parent) {
> down(&parent->sem);
> @@ -594,8 +619,11 @@ void class_device_del(struct class_devic
> up(&parent->sem);
> }
>
> - if (class_dev->dev)
> + if (class_dev->dev) {
> + class_name = make_class_name(class_dev);
> sysfs_remove_link(&class_dev->kobj, "device");
> + sysfs_remove_link(&class_dev->dev->kobj, class_name);
> + }
> if (class_dev->devt_attr)
> class_device_remove_file(class_dev,
> class_dev->devt_attr);
> class_device_remove_attrs(class_dev);
> @@ -605,6 +633,7 @@ void class_device_del(struct class_devic
>
> if (parent)
> class_put(parent);
> + kfree(class_name);
> }
>
> void class_device_unregister(struct class_device *class_dev)
> --- gregkh-2.6.orig/drivers/usb/core/hcd.c 2005-08-17
> 23:26:55.000000000 -0700
> +++ gregkh-2.6/drivers/usb/core/hcd.c 2005-08-17
> 23:27:04.000000000 -0700
> @@ -782,7 +782,7 @@ static int usb_register_bus(struct usb_b
> return -E2BIG;
> }
>
> - bus->class_dev = class_device_create(usb_host_class,
> MKDEV(0,0), bus->controller, "usb%d", busnum);
> + bus->class_dev = class_device_create(usb_host_class,
> MKDEV(0,0), bus->controller, "usb_host%d", busnum);
> if (IS_ERR(bus->class_dev)) {
> clear_bit(busnum, busmap.busmap);
> up(&usb_bus_list_lock);
>
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