From 64bb5d2c116478dba7501d2acf078ed74ba30c1f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Greg Kroah-Hartman Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2006 16:19:58 -0700 Subject: Driver core: allow devices in classes to have no parent This fixes an oops when a device is attached to a class, yet has no "parent" device. An example of this would be the "lo" device in the network core. We should create a "virtual" subdirectory under /sys/devices/ for these, but no one seems to agree on a proper name for it yet... Oh, and update my copyright on the driver core. Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- drivers/base/core.c | 21 +++++++++++---------- 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-) (limited to 'drivers/base') diff --git a/drivers/base/core.c b/drivers/base/core.c index 641c0c42bb4..5c91d0d81e7 100644 --- a/drivers/base/core.c +++ b/drivers/base/core.c @@ -3,6 +3,8 @@ * * Copyright (c) 2002-3 Patrick Mochel * Copyright (c) 2002-3 Open Source Development Labs + * Copyright (c) 2006 Greg Kroah-Hartman + * Copyright (c) 2006 Novell, Inc. * * This file is released under the GPLv2 * @@ -373,10 +375,11 @@ int device_add(struct device *dev) "subsystem"); sysfs_create_link(&dev->class->subsys.kset.kobj, &dev->kobj, dev->bus_id); - - sysfs_create_link(&dev->kobj, &dev->parent->kobj, "device"); - class_name = make_class_name(dev->class->name, &dev->kobj); - sysfs_create_link(&dev->parent->kobj, &dev->kobj, class_name); + if (parent) { + sysfs_create_link(&dev->kobj, &dev->parent->kobj, "device"); + class_name = make_class_name(dev->class->name, &dev->kobj); + sysfs_create_link(&dev->parent->kobj, &dev->kobj, class_name); + } } if ((error = device_add_groups(dev))) @@ -495,8 +498,10 @@ void device_del(struct device * dev) sysfs_remove_link(&dev->kobj, "subsystem"); sysfs_remove_link(&dev->class->subsys.kset.kobj, dev->bus_id); class_name = make_class_name(dev->class->name, &dev->kobj); - sysfs_remove_link(&dev->kobj, "device"); - sysfs_remove_link(&dev->parent->kobj, class_name); + if (parent) { + sysfs_remove_link(&dev->kobj, "device"); + sysfs_remove_link(&dev->parent->kobj, class_name); + } kfree(class_name); down(&dev->class->sem); list_del_init(&dev->node); @@ -625,10 +630,6 @@ struct device *device_create(struct class *class, struct device *parent, if (class == NULL || IS_ERR(class)) goto error; - if (parent == NULL) { - printk(KERN_WARNING "%s does not work yet for NULL parents\n", __FUNCTION__); - goto error; - } dev = kzalloc(sizeof(*dev), GFP_KERNEL); if (!dev) { -- cgit v1.2.2