sysfs: add /sys/dev/{char,block} to lookup sysfs path by major:minor

Why?:
There are occasions where userspace would like to access sysfs
attributes for a device but it may not know how sysfs has named the
device or the path.  For example what is the sysfs path for
/dev/disk/by-id/ata-ST3160827AS_5MT004CK?  With this change a call to
stat(2) returns the major:minor then userspace can see that
/sys/dev/block/8:32 links to /sys/block/sdc.

What are the alternatives?:
1/ Add an ioctl to return the path: Doable, but sysfs is meant to reduce
   the need to proliferate ioctl interfaces into the kernel, so this
   seems counter productive.

2/ Use udev to create these symlinks: Also doable, but it adds a
   udev dependency to utilities that might be running in a limited
   environment like an initramfs.

3/ Do a full-tree search of sysfs.

[kay.sievers@vrfy.org: fix duplicate registrations]
[kay.sievers@vrfy.org: cleanup suggestions]

Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Reviewed-by: SL Baur <steve@xemacs.org>
Acked-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Acked-by: Mark Lord <lkml@rtr.ca>
Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/base/class.c b/drivers/base/class.c
index e085af0ff94f..71ce3ff6bdf5 100644
--- a/drivers/base/class.c
+++ b/drivers/base/class.c
@@ -148,6 +148,10 @@ int class_register(struct class *cls)
         if (error)
                 return error;
 
+        /* set the default /sys/dev directory for devices of this class */
+        if (!cls->dev_kobj)
+                cls->dev_kobj = sysfs_dev_char_kobj;
+
 #if defined(CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED) && defined(CONFIG_BLOCK)
         /* let the block class directory show up in the root of sysfs */
         if (cls != &block_class)