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| author | Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> | 2010-09-08 16:54:17 +0200 |
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| committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> | 2010-10-22 10:16:43 -0700 |
| commit | e52eec13cd6b7f30ab19081b387813e03e592ae5 (patch) | |
| tree | 7b327e0b9283c578fb10922edcf6e10b3b8fd943 /drivers/base/class.c | |
| parent | 39aba963d937edb20db7d9d93e6dda5d2adfdcdd (diff) | |
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SYSFS: Allow boot time switching between deprecated and modern sysfs layout
I have some systems which need legacy sysfs due to old tools that are
making assumptions that a directory can never be a symlink to another
directory, and it's a big hazzle to compile separate kernels for them.
This patch turns CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED into a run time option
that can be switched on/off the kernel command line. This way
the same binary can be used in both cases with just a option
on the command line.
The old CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 option is still there to set
the default. I kept the weird name to not break existing
config files.
Also the compat code can be still completely disabled by undefining
CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED_SWITCH -- just the optimizer takes
care of this now instead of lots of ifdefs. This makes the code
look nicer.
v2: This is an updated version on top of Kay's patch to only
handle the block devices. I tested it on my old systems
and that seems to work.
Cc: axboe@kernel.dk
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/base/class.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/base/class.c | 4 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/base/class.c b/drivers/base/class.c index 1078969889fd..9c63a5687d69 100644 --- a/drivers/base/class.c +++ b/drivers/base/class.c @@ -184,9 +184,9 @@ int __class_register(struct class *cls, struct lock_class_key *key) if (!cls->dev_kobj) cls->dev_kobj = sysfs_dev_char_kobj; -#if defined(CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED) && defined(CONFIG_BLOCK) +#if defined(CONFIG_BLOCK) /* let the block class directory show up in the root of sysfs */ - if (cls != &block_class) + if (!sysfs_deprecated || cls != &block_class) cp->class_subsys.kobj.kset = class_kset; #else cp->class_subsys.kobj.kset = class_kset; |