linux-stable-rt/fs
Zhang Rui 91a6902958 sysfs: add parameter "struct bin_attribute *" in .read/.write methods for sysfs binary attributes
Well, first of all, I don't want to change so many files either.

What I do:
Adding a new parameter "struct bin_attribute *" in the
.read/.write methods for the sysfs binary attributes.

In fact, only the four lines change in fs/sysfs/bin.c and
include/linux/sysfs.h do the real work.
But I have to update all the files that use binary attributes
to make them compatible with the new .read and .write methods.
I'm not sure if I missed any. :(

Why I do this:
For a sysfs attribute, we can get a pointer pointing to the
struct attribute in the .show/.store method,
while we can't do this for the binary attributes.
I don't know why this is different, but this does make it not
so handy to use the binary attributes as the regular ones.
So I think this patch is reasonable. :)

Who benefits from it:
The patch that exposes ACPI tables in sysfs
requires such an improvement.
All the table binary attributes share the same .read method.
Parameter "struct bin_attribute *" is used to get
the table signature and instance number which are used to
distinguish different ACPI table binary attributes.

Without this parameter, we need to offer different .read methods
for different ACPI table binary attributes.
This is impossible as there are various ACPI tables on different
platforms, and we don't know what they are until they are loaded.

Signed-off-by: Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-07-11 16:09:09 -07:00
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9p Detach sched.h from mm.h 2007-05-21 09:18:19 -07:00
adfs sendfile: remove .sendfile from filesystems that use generic_file_sendfile() 2007-07-10 08:04:13 +02:00
affs sendfile: remove .sendfile from filesystems that use generic_file_sendfile() 2007-07-10 08:04:13 +02:00
afs sendfile: remove .sendfile from filesystems that use generic_file_sendfile() 2007-07-10 08:04:13 +02:00
autofs Replace pid_t in autofs with struct pid reference 2007-05-11 08:29:36 -07:00
autofs4 Fix some coding-style errors in autofs 2007-05-11 08:29:36 -07:00
befs Remove SLAB_CTOR_CONSTRUCTOR 2007-05-17 05:23:04 -07:00
bfs sendfile: remove .sendfile from filesystems that use generic_file_sendfile() 2007-07-10 08:04:13 +02:00
cifs sendfile: remove .sendfile from filesystems that use generic_file_sendfile() 2007-07-10 08:04:13 +02:00
coda sendfile: remove .sendfile from filesystems that use generic_file_sendfile() 2007-07-10 08:04:13 +02:00
configfs Detach sched.h from mm.h 2007-05-21 09:18:19 -07:00
cramfs
debugfs debugfs: add rename for debugfs files 2007-07-11 16:09:00 -07:00
devpts
dlm [DLM] dump more lock values 2007-07-09 08:24:13 +01:00
ecryptfs sysfs: kill unnecessary attribute->owner 2007-07-11 16:09:06 -07:00
efs Remove SLAB_CTOR_CONSTRUCTOR 2007-05-17 05:23:04 -07:00
exportfs
ext2 xip sendfile removal 2007-07-10 08:04:15 +02:00
ext3 sendfile: remove .sendfile from filesystems that use generic_file_sendfile() 2007-07-10 08:04:13 +02:00
ext4 sendfile: remove .sendfile from filesystems that use generic_file_sendfile() 2007-07-10 08:04:13 +02:00
fat sendfile: remove .sendfile from filesystems that use generic_file_sendfile() 2007-07-10 08:04:13 +02:00
freevxfs
fuse sendfile: remove .sendfile from filesystems that use generic_file_sendfile() 2007-07-10 08:04:13 +02:00
gfs2 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/steve/gfs2-2.6-nmw 2007-07-10 13:56:13 -07:00
hfs sendfile: remove .sendfile from filesystems that use generic_file_sendfile() 2007-07-10 08:04:13 +02:00
hfsplus sendfile: remove .sendfile from filesystems that use generic_file_sendfile() 2007-07-10 08:04:13 +02:00
hostfs sendfile: remove .sendfile from filesystems that use generic_file_sendfile() 2007-07-10 08:04:13 +02:00
hpfs sendfile: remove .sendfile from filesystems that use generic_file_sendfile() 2007-07-10 08:04:13 +02:00
hppfs
hugetlbfs shm: fix the filename of hugetlb sysv shared memory 2007-06-16 13:16:16 -07:00
isofs Remove SLAB_CTOR_CONSTRUCTOR 2007-05-17 05:23:04 -07:00
jbd
jbd2
jffs2 sendfile: remove .sendfile from filesystems that use generic_file_sendfile() 2007-07-10 08:04:13 +02:00
jfs sendfile: remove .sendfile from filesystems that use generic_file_sendfile() 2007-07-10 08:04:13 +02:00
lockd NLM: Fix sparse warnings 2007-05-14 19:33:46 -04:00
minix sendfile: remove .sendfile from filesystems that use generic_file_sendfile() 2007-07-10 08:04:13 +02:00
msdos
ncpfs Detach sched.h from mm.h 2007-05-21 09:18:19 -07:00
nfs sendfile: convert nfs to using splice_read() 2007-07-10 08:04:14 +02:00
nfs_common
nfsd pipe: change the ->pin() operation to ->confirm() 2007-07-10 08:04:15 +02:00
nls
ntfs sendfile: remove .sendfile from filesystems that use generic_file_sendfile() 2007-07-10 08:04:13 +02:00
ocfs2 sysfs: kill unnecessary attribute->owner 2007-07-11 16:09:06 -07:00
openpromfs Remove SLAB_CTOR_CONSTRUCTOR 2007-05-17 05:23:04 -07:00
partitions sysfs: kill unnecessary attribute->owner 2007-07-11 16:09:06 -07:00
proc sched: scheduler debugging, core 2007-07-09 18:52:00 +02:00
qnx4 sendfile: remove .sendfile from filesystems that use generic_file_sendfile() 2007-07-10 08:04:13 +02:00
ramfs sendfile: remove .sendfile from filesystems that use generic_file_sendfile() 2007-07-10 08:04:13 +02:00
reiserfs sendfile: remove .sendfile from filesystems that use generic_file_sendfile() 2007-07-10 08:04:13 +02:00
romfs Remove SLAB_CTOR_CONSTRUCTOR 2007-05-17 05:23:04 -07:00
smbfs sendfile: remove .sendfile from filesystems that use generic_file_sendfile() 2007-07-10 08:04:13 +02:00
sysfs sysfs: add parameter "struct bin_attribute *" in .read/.write methods for sysfs binary attributes 2007-07-11 16:09:09 -07:00
sysv sendfile: remove .sendfile from filesystems that use generic_file_sendfile() 2007-07-10 08:04:13 +02:00
udf sendfile: remove .sendfile from filesystems that use generic_file_sendfile() 2007-07-10 08:04:13 +02:00
ufs sendfile: remove .sendfile from filesystems that use generic_file_sendfile() 2007-07-10 08:04:13 +02:00
vfat
xfs sendfile: remove .sendfile from filesystems that use generic_file_sendfile() 2007-07-10 08:04:13 +02:00
Kconfig
Kconfig.binfmt fs: Kill sh dependency for binfmt_flat. 2007-05-21 14:34:00 +09:00
Makefile signal/timer/event: eventfd core 2007-05-11 08:29:36 -07:00
aio.c signal/timer/event: KAIO eventfd support example 2007-05-11 08:29:37 -07:00
anon_inodes.c signal/timer/event fds: anonymous inode source 2007-05-11 08:29:36 -07:00
attr.c
bad_inode.c sendfile: remove bad_sendfile() from bad_file_ops 2007-07-10 08:04:15 +02:00
binfmt_aout.c
binfmt_elf.c Fix elf_core_dump() when writing arch specific notes (spu coredumps) 2007-07-06 10:23:43 -07:00
binfmt_elf_fdpic.c
binfmt_em86.c
binfmt_flat.c nommu: report correct errno in message 2007-06-08 17:23:32 -07:00
binfmt_misc.c Detach sched.h from mm.h 2007-05-21 09:18:19 -07:00
binfmt_script.c
binfmt_som.c
bio.c unexport bio_{,un}map_user 2007-07-10 08:03:34 +02:00
block_dev.c sendfile: remove .sendfile from filesystems that use generic_file_sendfile() 2007-07-10 08:04:13 +02:00
buffer.c Fix "fs: convert core functions to zero_user_page" 2007-05-21 09:15:32 -07:00
char_dev.c
compat.c optimize compat_core_sys_select() by a using stack space for small fd sets 2007-05-23 20:14:12 -07:00
compat_ioctl.c fix compat console unimap regression 2007-05-25 17:37:46 -07:00
dcache.c
dcookies.c
direct-io.c dio: remove bogus refcounting BUG_ON 2007-07-03 18:23:23 -07:00
dnotify.c
dquot.c circular locking dependency found in QUOTA OFF 2007-05-17 05:23:05 -07:00
drop_caches.c
eventfd.c eventfd use waitqueue lock ... 2007-05-18 13:09:34 -07:00
eventpoll.c epoll: move kfree inside ep_free 2007-05-15 08:54:00 -07:00
exec.c uselib: add missing MNT_NOEXEC check 2007-05-23 20:14:13 -07:00
fcntl.c
fifo.c Detach sched.h from mm.h 2007-05-21 09:18:19 -07:00
file.c
file_table.c
filesystems.c
fs-writeback.c
generic_acl.c
inode.c Remove SLAB_CTOR_CONSTRUCTOR 2007-05-17 05:23:04 -07:00
inotify.c
inotify_user.c
internal.h
ioctl.c vanishing ioctl handler debugging 2007-06-04 13:25:10 -07:00
ioprio.c
libfs.c
locks.c Remove SLAB_CTOR_CONSTRUCTOR 2007-05-17 05:23:04 -07:00
mbcache.c
mpage.c consolidate generic_writepages and mpage_writepages 2007-05-11 08:29:35 -07:00
namei.c [PATCH] complete message queue auditing 2007-05-11 05:38:26 -04:00
namespace.c
nfsctl.c
no-block.c
open.c
pipe.c pipe: add documentation and comments 2007-07-10 08:04:16 +02:00
pnode.c
pnode.h
posix_acl.c
quota.c circular locking dependency found in QUOTA OFF 2007-05-17 05:23:05 -07:00
quota_v1.c
quota_v2.c
read_write.c Remove remnants of sendfile() 2007-07-10 08:04:15 +02:00
read_write.h
readdir.c
select.c
seq_file.c Make common helpers for seq_files that work with list_heads 2007-07-10 17:51:13 -07:00
signalfd.c avoid spurious POLLIN returns in signalfd 2007-06-28 11:34:54 -07:00
splice.c pipe: add documentation and comments 2007-07-10 08:04:16 +02:00
stack.c
stat.c
super.c
sync.c Introduce fixed sys_sync_file_range2() syscall, implement on PowerPC and ARM 2007-06-28 11:38:30 -07:00
timerfd.c timerfd use waitqueue lock ... 2007-05-18 13:09:34 -07:00
utimes.c Fix permission checking for the new utimensat() system call 2007-07-08 12:02:55 -07:00
xattr.c [PATCH] audit inode for all xattr syscalls 2007-05-11 05:38:26 -04:00
xattr_acl.c