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authorDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>2010-08-11 15:01:02 +0100
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>2010-08-23 18:12:46 -0700
commit8488a38f4d2f43bd55a3e0db4cd57a5bef3af6d6 (patch)
tree104acb0de25090fa4982c24799c2d3d414b9b192 /include/linux/kobject_ns.h
parent9ee47476d6734c9deb9ae9ab05d963302f6b6150 (diff)
kobject: Break the kobject namespace defs into their own header
Break the kobject namespace defs into their own header to avoid a header file inclusion ordering problem between linux/sysfs.h and linux/kobject.h. This fixes the build breakage on older versions of gcc. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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+/* Kernel object name space definitions
+ *
+ * Copyright (c) 2002-2003 Patrick Mochel
+ * Copyright (c) 2002-2003 Open Source Development Labs
+ * Copyright (c) 2006-2008 Greg Kroah-Hartman <greg@kroah.com>
+ * Copyright (c) 2006-2008 Novell Inc.
+ *
+ * Split from kobject.h by David Howells (dhowells@redhat.com)
+ *
+ * This file is released under the GPLv2.
+ *
+ * Please read Documentation/kobject.txt before using the kobject
+ * interface, ESPECIALLY the parts about reference counts and object
+ * destructors.
+ */
+
+#ifndef _LINUX_KOBJECT_NS_H
+#define _LINUX_KOBJECT_NS_H
+
+struct sock;
+struct kobject;
+
+/*
+ * Namespace types which are used to tag kobjects and sysfs entries.
+ * Network namespace will likely be the first.
+ */
+enum kobj_ns_type {
+ KOBJ_NS_TYPE_NONE = 0,
+ KOBJ_NS_TYPE_NET,
+ KOBJ_NS_TYPES
+};
+
+/*
+ * Callbacks so sysfs can determine namespaces
+ * @current_ns: return calling task's namespace
+ * @netlink_ns: return namespace to which a sock belongs (right?)
+ * @initial_ns: return the initial namespace (i.e. init_net_ns)
+ */
+struct kobj_ns_type_operations {
+ enum kobj_ns_type type;
+ const void *(*current_ns)(void);
+ const void *(*netlink_ns)(struct sock *sk);
+ const void *(*initial_ns)(void);
+};
+
+int kobj_ns_type_register(const struct kobj_ns_type_operations *ops);
+int kobj_ns_type_registered(enum kobj_ns_type type);
+const struct kobj_ns_type_operations *kobj_child_ns_ops(struct kobject *parent);
+const struct kobj_ns_type_operations *kobj_ns_ops(struct kobject *kobj);
+
+const void *kobj_ns_current(enum kobj_ns_type type);
+const void *kobj_ns_netlink(enum kobj_ns_type type, struct sock *sk);
+const void *kobj_ns_initial(enum kobj_ns_type type);
+void kobj_ns_exit(enum kobj_ns_type type, const void *ns);
+
+#endif /* _LINUX_KOBJECT_NS_H */