From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> To: torvalds@osdl.org, akpm@osdl.org Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: [BK PATCH] Driver Core update for 2.6.1 Hi, Here are a few kobject and driver core changes for 2.6.1. The majority of these are the "class_simple" patches that have been in the -mm tree for quite a while now. They add sysfs class support for a wide range of different class devices, which is required for tools like udev to be able to do device naming in userspace. Andrew suggested that I send them to you now. All of the different driver subsystem maintainers (when there is one) have ACKed these changes. Please pull from: bk://kernel.bkbits.net/gregkh/linux/driver-2.6 thanks, greg k-h p.s. I'll send these as patches in response to this email to lkml for those who want to see them. drivers/base/Makefile | 2 drivers/base/class.c | 14 +++ drivers/base/class_simple.c | 201 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ drivers/base/core.c | 9 + drivers/char/lp.c | 6 + drivers/char/mem.c | 7 + drivers/char/misc.c | 17 +++ drivers/char/tty_io.c | 91 ++----------------- drivers/input/evdev.c | 4 drivers/input/input.c | 8 - drivers/input/joydev.c | 4 drivers/input/mousedev.c | 8 + drivers/input/tsdev.c | 4 include/linux/device.h | 10 ++ include/linux/input.h | 3 include/linux/kobject.h | 1 include/linux/miscdevice.h | 3 include/sound/core.h | 1 lib/kobject.c | 51 ++++------- sound/core/sound.c | 34 ++++--- sound/oss/soundcard.c | 13 ++ sound/pci/intel8x0.c | 1 sound/sound_core.c | 10 ++ 23 files changed, 368 insertions(+), 134 deletions(-) ----- Dmitry Torokhov: o kobject: make kobject hotplug function public Greg Kroah-Hartman: o Kobject: prevent oops in kset_find_obj() if kobject_name() is NULL o ALSA: add sysfs class support for ALSA sound devices o OSS: add sysfs class support for OSS sound devices o MISC: add sysfs class support for misc devices o MEM: add sysfs class support for mem devices o LP: add sysfs class support for lp devices o Input: add sysfs class support for input devices o TTY: clean up sysfs class support for tty devices o Driver Core: add class_simple support Hollis Blanchard: o Driver Core: add device_find() function