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authorNeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>2010-06-01 19:37:23 +1000
committerNeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>2010-07-21 13:27:53 +1000
commit00bcb4ac7ee7e557a491b614219142cea0ef16f4 (patch)
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md: reduce dependence on sysfs.
We will want md devices to live as dm targets where sysfs is not visible. So allow md to not connect to sysfs. Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
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diff --git a/drivers/md/md.h b/drivers/md/md.h
index 10597bfec000..1e6405918eec 100644
--- a/drivers/md/md.h
+++ b/drivers/md/md.h
@@ -382,6 +382,18 @@ struct md_sysfs_entry {
};
extern struct attribute_group md_bitmap_group;
+static inline struct sysfs_dirent *sysfs_get_dirent_safe(struct sysfs_dirent *sd, char *name)
+{
+ if (sd)
+ return sysfs_get_dirent(sd, NULL, name);
+ return sd;
+}
+static inline void sysfs_notify_dirent_safe(struct sysfs_dirent *sd)
+{
+ if (sd)
+ sysfs_notify_dirent(sd);
+}
+
static inline char * mdname (mddev_t * mddev)
{
return mddev->gendisk ? mddev->gendisk->disk_name : "mdX";