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:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > 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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > --- > 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); > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
