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2010-03-07Driver core: create lock/unlock functions for struct deviceGreg Kroah-Hartman
In the future, we are going to be changing the lock type for struct device (once we get the lockdep infrastructure properly worked out) To make that changeover easier, and to possibly burry the lock in a different part of struct device, let's create some functions to lock and unlock a device so that no out-of-core code needs to be changed in the future. This patch creates the device_lock/unlock/trylock() functions, and converts all in-tree users to them. Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> Cc: Dave Young <hidave.darkstar@gmail.com> Cc: Ming Lei <tom.leiming@gmail.com> Cc: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz> Cc: Phil Carmody <ext-phil.2.carmody@nokia.com> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Cc: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com> Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> Cc: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com> Cc: Magnus Damm <damm@igel.co.jp> Cc: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Cc: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de> Cc: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net> Cc: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com> Cc: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org> Cc: Alex Chiang <achiang@hp.com> Cc: Kenji Kaneshige <kaneshige.kenji@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Andrew Patterson <andrew.patterson@hp.com> Cc: Yu Zhao <yu.zhao@intel.com> Cc: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net> Cc: Samuel Ortiz <sameo@linux.intel.com> Cc: Wolfram Sang <w.sang@pengutronix.de> Cc: CHENG Renquan <rqcheng@smu.edu.sg> Cc: Oliver Neukum <oliver@neukum.org> Cc: Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl> Cc: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@csr.com> Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Cc: Sarah Sharp <sarah.a.sharp@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-03-07Driver core: Constify struct sysfs_ops in struct kobj_typeEmese Revfy
Constify struct sysfs_ops. This is part of the ops structure constification effort started by Arjan van de Ven et al. Benefits of this constification: * prevents modification of data that is shared (referenced) by many other structure instances at runtime * detects/prevents accidental (but not intentional) modification attempts on archs that enforce read-only kernel data at runtime * potentially better optimized code as the compiler can assume that the const data cannot be changed * the compiler/linker move const data into .rodata and therefore exclude them from false sharing Signed-off-by: Emese Revfy <re.emese@gmail.com> Acked-by: David Teigland <teigland@redhat.com> Acked-by: Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com> Acked-by: Maciej Sosnowski <maciej.sosnowski@intel.com> Acked-by: Hans J. Koch <hjk@linutronix.de> Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Acked-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> Acked-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-03-07kobject: Constify struct kset_uevent_opsEmese Revfy
Constify struct kset_uevent_ops. This is part of the ops structure constification effort started by Arjan van de Ven et al. Benefits of this constification: * prevents modification of data that is shared (referenced) by many other structure instances at runtime * detects/prevents accidental (but not intentional) modification attempts on archs that enforce read-only kernel data at runtime * potentially better optimized code as the compiler can assume that the const data cannot be changed * the compiler/linker move const data into .rodata and therefore exclude them from false sharing Signed-off-by: Emese Revfy <re.emese@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-12-23driver core: Prevent reference to freed memory on error pathPhil Carmody
priv is drv->p. So only free drv->p after we've finished using priv. Found using a static code analysis tool Signed-off-by: Phil Carmody <ext-phil.2.carmody@nokia.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-10-30Driver core: allow certain drivers prohibit bind/unbind via sysfsDmitry Torokhov
Platform drivers registered via platform_driver_probe() can be bound to devices only once, upon registration, because discard their probe() routines to save memory. Unbinding the driver through sysfs 'unbind' leaves the device stranded and confuses users so let's not create bind and unbind attributes for such drivers. Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru> Cc: Éric Piel <eric.piel@tremplin-utc.net> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-09-15Driver core: add new device to bus's list before probingAlan Stern
This patch (as1271) affects when new devices get linked into their bus's list of devices. Currently this happens after probing, and it doesn't happen at all if probing fails. Clearly this is wrong, because at that point quite a few symbolic links have already been created in sysfs. We are committed to adding the device, so it should be linked into the bus's list regardless. In addition, this needs to happen before the uevent announcing the new device gets issued. Otherwise user programs might try to access the device before it has been added to the bus. To fix both these problems, the patch moves the call to klist_add_tail() forward from bus_attach_device() to bus_add_device(). Since bus_attach_device() now does nothing but probe for drivers, it has been renamed to bus_probe_device(). And lastly, the kerneldoc is updated. Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> CC: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-06-12trivial: fix grammo in bus_for_each_dev() kerneldocAlex Chiang
Signed-off-by: Alex Chiang <achiang@hp.com> Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2009-05-28Driver Core: do not oops when driver_unregister() is called for unregistered ↵Kay Sievers
drivers We also fix a problem with cleaning up properly when initializing drivers and devices, so checks like this will work successfully. Portions of the patch by Linus and Greg and Ingo. Reported-by: Ozan Çağlayan <ozan@pardus.org.tr> Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-03-24driver core: move knode_bus into private structureGreg Kroah-Hartman
Nothing outside of the driver core should ever touch knode_bus, so move it out of the public eye. Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-03-24driver-core: do not register a driver with bus_type not registeredDave Young
If the bus_type is not registerd, driver_register to that bus will cause oops. I found this bug when test built-in usb serial drivers (ie. aircable driver) with 'nousb' cmdline params. In this patch: 1. set the bus->p=NULL when bus_register failed and unregisterd. 2. if bus->p is NULL, driver_register BUG_ON will be triggered. Signed-off-by: Dave Young <hidave.darkstar@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-03-24driver core: check bus->match without holding device lockMing Lei
This patch moves bus->match out from driver_probe_device and does not hold device lock to check the match between a device and a driver. The idea has been verified by the commit 6cd495860901, which leads to a faster boot. But the commit 6cd495860901 has the following drawbacks: 1),only does the quick check in the path of __driver_attach->driver_probe_device, not in other paths; 2),for a matched device and driver, check the same match twice. It is a waste of cpu ,especially for some drivers with long device id table (eg. usb-storage driver). This patch adds a helper of driver_match_device to check the match in all paths, and testes the match only once. Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <tom.leiming@gmail.com> Acked-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-01-09Revert "driver core: move knode_bus into private structure"Greg Kroah-Hartman
This reverts commit b9daa99ee533578e3f88231e7a16784dcb44ec42. Turns out that device_initialize shouldn't fail silently. This series needs to be reworked in order to get into proper shape. Reported-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de> Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-01-06driver core: move knode_bus into private structureGreg Kroah-Hartman
Nothing outside of the driver core should ever touch knode_bus, so move it out of the public eye. Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-01-06driver core: struct device - replace bus_id with dev_name(), dev_set_name()Kay Sievers
Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-10-16Driver core: add bus_sort_breadthfirst() functionGreg Kroah-Hartman
The PCI core wants to reorder the devices in the bus list. So move this functionality out of the pci core and into the driver core so that anyone else can also do this if needed. This also lets us change how struct device is attached to drivers in the future without messing with the PCI core. Acked-by: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-10-16Driver core: make bus_find_device_by_name() more robustPeter Korsgaard
Use sysfs_streq() in bus_find_device_by_name() so trailing newlines are ignored (E.G. in bind/unbind). Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-04-22bus_remove_device: be more careful about incomplete initializationRafael J. Wysocki
Prevent bus_remove_device() from crashing if dev->knode_bus has not been initialized before it's called. This can happen if the device_add() ended up breaking out early due to an error, for example. Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-04-19driver core: replace remaining __FUNCTION__ occurrencesHarvey Harrison
__FUNCTION__ is gcc-specific, use __func__ Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-04-19Driver core: make device_is_registered() work for class devicesGreg Kroah-Hartman
device_is_registered() can use the kobject value for this, so it will now work with devices that are associated with only a class, not a bus and a driver. Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-02-21Driver core: Fix error handling in bus_add_driver().Cornelia Huck
- If the allocation of ->priv fails, the reference on the bus must be dropped. - If adding the kobject fails, kobject_put must be called to clean things up. Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-01-27Driver core: add bus_find_device_by_name functionGreg Kroah-Hartman
The driver core, and some other parts of the kernel just want to find a device based on a name for a specific bus. Give them a simple wrapper to prevent them from having to always roll their own. This will be used in the PPC patch later in this series. Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-01-24Driver core: coding style fixesGreg Kroah-Hartman
Fix up a number of coding style issues in the drivers/base/ directory that have annoyed me over the years. checkpatch.pl is now very happy. Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-01-24Kobject: convert drivers/* from kobject_unregister() to kobject_put()Greg Kroah-Hartman
There is no need for kobject_unregister() anymore, thanks to Kay's kobject cleanup changes, so replace all instances of it with kobject_put(). Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-01-24Kobject: change drivers/base/bus to use kobject_init_and_addGreg Kroah-Hartman
Stop using kobject_register, as this way we can control the sending of the uevent properly, after everything is properly initialized. Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-01-24Driver core: clean up debugging messagesGreg Kroah-Hartman
The driver core debugging messages are a mess. This provides a unified message that makes them actually useful. The format for new kobject debug messages should be: driver/bus/class: 'OBJECT_NAME': FUNCTION_NAME: message.\n Note, the class code is not changed in this patch due to pending patches in my queue that this would conflict with. A later patch will clean them up. Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-01-24Driver core: move the static kobject out of struct driverGreg Kroah-Hartman
This patch removes the kobject, and a few other driver-core-only fields out of struct driver and into the driver core only. Now drivers can be safely create on the stack or statically (like they currently are.) Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-01-24driver core: remove fields from struct bus_typeGreg Kroah-Hartman
struct bus_type is static everywhere in the kernel. This moves the kobject in the structure out of it, and a bunch of other private only to the driver core fields are now moved to a private structure. This lets us dynamically create the backing kobject properly and gives us the chance to be able to document to users exactly how to use the struct bus_type as there are no fields they can improperly access. Thanks to Kay for the build fixes on this patch. Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-01-24driver core: add way to get to bus device klistGreg Kroah-Hartman
This allows an easier way to get to the device klist associated with a struct bus_type (you have three to choose from...) This will make it easier to move these fields to be dynamic in a future patch. The only user of this is the PCI core which horribly abuses this interface to rearrange the order of the pci devices. This should be done using the existing bus device walking functions, but that's left for future patches. Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-01-24driver core: add way to get to bus ksetGreg Kroah-Hartman
This allows an easier way to get to the kset associated with a struct bus_type (you have three to choose from...) This will make it easier to move these fields to be dynamic in a future patch. Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-01-24kobject: remove subsystem_(un)register functionsGreg Kroah-Hartman
These functions are no longer used and are the last remants of the old subsystem crap. So delete them for good. Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-01-24kset: convert struct bus_device->drivers to use kset_createGreg Kroah-Hartman
Dynamically create the kset instead of declaring it statically. Having 3 static kobjects in one structure is not only foolish, but ripe for nasty race conditions if handled improperly. We also rename the field to catch any potential users of it (not that there should be outside of the driver core...) Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-01-24kset: convert struct bus_device->devices to use kset_createGreg Kroah-Hartman
Dynamically create the kset instead of declaring it statically. Having 3 static kobjects in one structure is not only foolish, but ripe for nasty race conditions if handled improperly. We also rename the field to catch any potential users of it (not that there should be outside of the driver core...) Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-01-24kset: convert drivers/base/bus.c to use kset_createGreg Kroah-Hartman
Dynamically create the kset instead of declaring it statically. Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-01-24kobject: remove struct kobj_type from struct ksetGreg Kroah-Hartman
We don't need a "default" ktype for a kset. We should set this explicitly every time for each kset. This change is needed so that we can make ksets dynamic, and cleans up one of the odd, undocumented assumption that the kset/kobject/ktype model has. This patch is based on a lot of help from Kay Sievers. Nasty bug in the block code was found by Dave Young <hidave.darkstar@gmail.com> Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Cc: Dave Young <hidave.darkstar@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-10-12Driver core: rename ktype_driverGreg Kroah-Hartman
This makes it a bit more sane when trying to figure out how to clean up the ktype mess. Based on a larger patch from Kay Sievers Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-10-12Driver core: add uevent file for bus and driverKay Sievers
This has been in the SuSE kernels for some time now. Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-10-12Driver core: remove get_bus()Greg Kroah-Hartman
get_bus() should not be globally visable as it is not used by anything other than drivers/base/bus.c. This patch removes the visability of it, and renames it to match all of the other *_get() functions in the kernel. Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-10-12Driver core: remove put_bus()Greg Kroah-Hartman
put_bus() should not be globally visable as it is not used by anything other than drivers/base/bus.c. This patch removes the visability of it, and renames it to match all of the other *_put() functions in the kernel. Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-10-12Driver core: remove subsys_get()Greg Kroah-Hartman
There are no more subsystems, it's a kset now so remove the function and the only two users, which are in the driver core. Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-10-12Driver core: remove subsys_put()Greg Kroah-Hartman
There are no more subsystems, it's a kset now so remove the function and the only two users, which are in the driver core. Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-10-12Driver core: remove subsys_set_ksetGreg Kroah-Hartman
This macro is only used by the driver core and is held over from when we had subsystems. It is not needed anymore. Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-10-12Driver core: make sysfs uevent-attributes staticKay Sievers
Attributes do not have an owner(module) anymore, so there is no need to carry the attributes in every single bus instance. Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Acked-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-07-11sysfs: kill unnecessary attribute->ownerTejun Heo
sysfs is now completely out of driver/module lifetime game. After deletion, a sysfs node doesn't access anything outside sysfs proper, so there's no reason to hold onto the attribute owners. Note that often the wrong modules were accounted for as owners leading to accessing removed modules. This patch kills now unnecessary attribute->owner. Note that with this change, userland holding a sysfs node does not prevent the backing module from being unloaded. For more info regarding lifetime rule cleanup, please read the following message. http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/510293 (tweaked by Greg to not delete the field just yet, to make it easier to merge things properly.) Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com> Cc: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-07-11Driver core: coding style cleanupCornelia Huck
This converts code of the form if ((error = some_func())) goto fixup; to error = some_func(); if (error) goto fixup; Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-07-11Driver core: add missing kset ueventKay Sievers
We get uevents for a bus/class going away, but not one registering. Add the missing uevent in kset_register(), which will send an event for a new bus/class. Suppress all unwanted uevents for bus subdirectories like /bus/*/devices/, /bus/*/drivers/. Now we get for module usbcore: add /module/usbcore (module) add /bus/usb (bus) add /class/usb_host (class) add /bus/usb/drivers/hub (drivers) add /bus/usb/drivers/usb (drivers) remove /bus/usb/drivers/usb (drivers) remove /bus/usb/drivers/hub (drivers) remove /class/usb_host (class) remove /bus/usb (bus) remove /module/usbcore (module) instead of: add /module/usbcore (module) add /bus/usb/drivers/hub (drivers) add /bus/usb/drivers/usb (drivers) remove /bus/usb/drivers/usb (drivers) remove /bus/usb/drivers/hub (drivers) remove /class/usb_host (class) remove /bus/usb/drivers (bus) remove /bus/usb/devices (bus) remove /bus/usb (bus) remove /module/usbcore (module) Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-05-02remove "struct subsystem" as it is no longer neededGreg Kroah-Hartman
We need to work on cleaning up the relationship between kobjects, ksets and ktypes. The removal of 'struct subsystem' is the first step of this, especially as it is not really needed at all. Thanks to Kay for fixing the bugs in this patch. Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-04-27driver core: bus_add_driver should return an error if no busGreg Kroah-Hartman
As pointed out by Dave Jones. Cc: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-04-27Driver core: remove unneeded completion from driver release pathGreg Kroah-Hartman
The completion in the driver release path is due to ancient history in the _very_ early 2.5 days when we were not tracking the module reference count of attributes. It is not needed at all and can be removed. Note, we now have an empty release function for the driver structure. This is due to the fact that drivers are statically allocated in the system at this point in time, something which I want to change in the future. But remember, drivers are really code, which is reference counted by the module, unlike devices, which are data and _must_ be reference counted properly in order to work correctly. Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-04-27driver core: don't fail attaching the device if it cannot be boundCornelia Huck
Don't fail bus_attach_device() if the device cannot be bound. If dev->driver has been specified, reset it to NULL if device_bind_driver() failed and add the device as an unbound device. As a result, bus_attach_device() now cannot fail, and we can remove some checking from device_add(). Also remove an unneeded check in bus_rescan_devices_helper(). Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-04-27Driver core: udev triggered device-<>driver bindingKay Sievers
We get two per-bus sysfs files: ls-l /sys/subsystem/usb drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 2007-02-16 16:42 devices drwxr-xr-x 7 root root 0 2007-02-16 14:55 drivers -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4096 2007-02-16 16:42 drivers_autoprobe --w------- 1 root root 4096 2007-02-16 16:42 drivers_probe The flag "drivers_autoprobe" controls the behavior of the bus to bind devices by default, or just initialize the device and leave it alone. The command "drivers_probe" accepts a bus_id and the bus tries to bind a driver to this device. Systems who want to control the driver binding with udev, switch off the bus initiated probing: echo 0 > /sys/subsystem/usb/drivers_autoprobe echo 0 > /sys/subsystem/pcmcia/drivers_autoprobe ... and initiate the probing with udev rules like: ACTION=="add", SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ATTR{subsystem/drivers_probe}="$kernel" ACTION=="add", SUBSYSTEM=="pcmcia", ATTR{subsystem/drivers_probe}="$kernel" ... Custom driver binding can happen in earlier rules by something like: ACTION=="add", SUBSYSTEM=="usb", \ ATTRS{idVendor}=="1234", ATTRS{idProduct}=="5678" \ ATTR{subsystem/drivers/<custom-driver>/bind}="$kernel" This is intended to solve the modprobe.conf mess with "install-rules", custom bind/unbind-scripts and all the weird things people invented over the years. It should also provide the functionality "libusual" was supposed to do. With udev, one can just write a udev rule to drive all USB-disks at the third port of USB-hub by the "ub" driver, and everything else by usb-storage. One can also instruct udev to bind different wireless drivers to identical cards - just selected by the pcmcia slot-number, and whatever ... To use the mentioned rules, it needs udev version 106, to be able to write ATTR{}="$kernel" to sysfs files. Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>