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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/DocBook/device-drivers.tmpl | 1 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/sysfs.txt | 46 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/firmware_class/hotplug-script | 17 |
3 files changed, 36 insertions, 28 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/DocBook/device-drivers.tmpl b/Documentation/DocBook/device-drivers.tmpl index 1b2dd4fc3db..ecd35e9d441 100644 --- a/Documentation/DocBook/device-drivers.tmpl +++ b/Documentation/DocBook/device-drivers.tmpl @@ -111,6 +111,7 @@ X!Edrivers/base/attribute_container.c <!-- X!Edrivers/base/interface.c --> +!Iinclude/linux/platform_device.h !Edrivers/base/platform.c !Edrivers/base/bus.c </sect1> diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/sysfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/sysfs.txt index 931c806642c..5d1335faec2 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/sysfs.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/sysfs.txt @@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ sysfs - _The_ filesystem for exporting kernel objects. Patrick Mochel <mochel@osdl.org> Mike Murphy <mamurph@cs.clemson.edu> -Revised: 22 February 2009 +Revised: 15 July 2010 Original: 10 January 2003 @@ -124,7 +124,7 @@ show and store methods of the attribute owners. struct sysfs_ops { ssize_t (*show)(struct kobject *, struct attribute *, char *); - ssize_t (*store)(struct kobject *, struct attribute *, const char *); + ssize_t (*store)(struct kobject *, struct attribute *, const char *, size_t); }; [ Subsystems should have already defined a struct kobj_type as a @@ -139,18 +139,22 @@ calls the associated methods. To illustrate: +#define to_dev(obj) container_of(obj, struct device, kobj) #define to_dev_attr(_attr) container_of(_attr, struct device_attribute, attr) -#define to_dev(d) container_of(d, struct device, kobj) -static ssize_t -dev_attr_show(struct kobject * kobj, struct attribute * attr, char * buf) +static ssize_t dev_attr_show(struct kobject *kobj, struct attribute *attr, + char *buf) { - struct device_attribute * dev_attr = to_dev_attr(attr); - struct device * dev = to_dev(kobj); - ssize_t ret = 0; + struct device_attribute *dev_attr = to_dev_attr(attr); + struct device *dev = to_dev(kobj); + ssize_t ret = -EIO; if (dev_attr->show) - ret = dev_attr->show(dev, buf); + ret = dev_attr->show(dev, dev_attr, buf); + if (ret >= (ssize_t)PAGE_SIZE) { + print_symbol("dev_attr_show: %s returned bad count\n", + (unsigned long)dev_attr->show); + } return ret; } @@ -163,10 +167,9 @@ To read or write attributes, show() or store() methods must be specified when declaring the attribute. The method types should be as simple as those defined for device attributes: -ssize_t (*show)(struct device * dev, struct device_attribute * attr, - char * buf); -ssize_t (*store)(struct device * dev, struct device_attribute * attr, - const char * buf); +ssize_t (*show)(struct device *dev, struct device_attribute *attr, char *buf); +ssize_t (*store)(struct device *dev, struct device_attribute *attr, + const char *buf, size_t count); IOW, they should take only an object, an attribute, and a buffer as parameters. @@ -209,8 +212,8 @@ Other notes: - show() should always use snprintf(). -- store() should return the number of bytes used from the buffer. This - can be done using strlen(). +- store() should return the number of bytes used from the buffer. If the + entire buffer has been used, just return the count argument. - show() or store() can always return errors. If a bad value comes through, be sure to return an error. @@ -223,15 +226,18 @@ Other notes: A very simple (and naive) implementation of a device attribute is: -static ssize_t show_name(struct device *dev, struct device_attribute *attr, char *buf) +static ssize_t show_name(struct device *dev, struct device_attribute *attr, + char *buf) { return snprintf(buf, PAGE_SIZE, "%s\n", dev->name); } -static ssize_t store_name(struct device * dev, const char * buf) +static ssize_t store_name(struct device *dev, struct device_attribute *attr, + const char *buf, size_t count) { - sscanf(buf, "%20s", dev->name); - return strnlen(buf, PAGE_SIZE); + snprintf(dev->name, sizeof(dev->name), "%.*s", + (int)min(count, sizeof(dev->name) - 1), buf); + return count; } static DEVICE_ATTR(name, S_IRUGO, show_name, store_name); @@ -327,7 +333,7 @@ Structure: struct bus_attribute { struct attribute attr; ssize_t (*show)(struct bus_type *, char * buf); - ssize_t (*store)(struct bus_type *, const char * buf); + ssize_t (*store)(struct bus_type *, const char * buf, size_t count); }; Declaring: diff --git a/Documentation/firmware_class/hotplug-script b/Documentation/firmware_class/hotplug-script index 1990130f2ab..8143a950b60 100644 --- a/Documentation/firmware_class/hotplug-script +++ b/Documentation/firmware_class/hotplug-script @@ -6,11 +6,12 @@ HOTPLUG_FW_DIR=/usr/lib/hotplug/firmware/ -echo 1 > /sys/$DEVPATH/loading -cat $HOTPLUG_FW_DIR/$FIRMWARE > /sys/$DEVPATH/data -echo 0 > /sys/$DEVPATH/loading - -# To cancel the load in case of error: -# -# echo -1 > /sys/$DEVPATH/loading -# +if [ "$SUBSYSTEM" == "firmware" -a "$ACTION" == "add" ]; then + if [ -f $HOTPLUG_FW_DIR/$FIRMWARE ]; then + echo 1 > /sys/$DEVPATH/loading + cat $HOTPLUG_FW_DIR/$FIRMWARE > /sys/$DEVPATH/data + echo 0 > /sys/$DEVPATH/loading + else + echo -1 > /sys/$DEVPATH/loading + fi +fi |