This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled Subject: Driver core: switch firmware_class to uevent_suppress.
to my gregkh-2.6 tree. Its filename is driver-core-switch-firmware_class-to-uevent_suppress.patch This tree can be found at http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/gregkh/gregkh-2.6/patches/ >From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu Mar 29 02:10:23 2007 From: Cornelia Huck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2007 11:12:14 +0200 Subject: Driver core: switch firmware_class to uevent_suppress. To: linux-kernel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Greg K-H <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Manuel Estrada Sainz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Eric Rannaud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> From: Cornelia Huck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Use uevent_suppress instead of returning an error code in firmware_uevent(). Get rid of the now unneeded FW_STATUS_READY and FW_STATUS_READY_NOHOTPLUG. Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- drivers/base/firmware_class.c | 10 ++-------- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/base/firmware_class.c +++ b/drivers/base/firmware_class.c @@ -31,8 +31,6 @@ enum { FW_STATUS_LOADING, FW_STATUS_DONE, FW_STATUS_ABORT, - FW_STATUS_READY, - FW_STATUS_READY_NOHOTPLUG, }; static int loading_timeout = 60; /* In seconds */ @@ -96,9 +94,6 @@ static int firmware_uevent(struct device struct firmware_priv *fw_priv = dev_get_drvdata(dev); int i = 0, len = 0; - if (!test_bit(FW_STATUS_READY, &fw_priv->status)) - return -ENODEV; - if (add_uevent_var(envp, num_envp, &i, buffer, buffer_size, &len, "FIRMWARE=%s", fw_priv->fw_id)) return -ENOMEM; @@ -333,6 +328,7 @@ static int fw_register_device(struct dev f_dev->parent = device; f_dev->class = &firmware_class; dev_set_drvdata(f_dev, fw_priv); + f_dev->uevent_suppress = 1; retval = device_register(f_dev); if (retval) { printk(KERN_ERR "%s: device_register failed\n", @@ -382,9 +378,7 @@ static int fw_setup_device(struct firmwa } if (uevent) - set_bit(FW_STATUS_READY, &fw_priv->status); - else - set_bit(FW_STATUS_READY_NOHOTPLUG, &fw_priv->status); + f_dev->uevent_suppress = 0; *dev_p = f_dev; goto out; Patches currently in gregkh-2.6 which might be from [EMAIL PROTECTED] are - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/