firmware: export firmware_kset so that people can use that instead of the braindead firmware_register interface

Needed for future firmware subsystem cleanups.

In the end, the firmware_register/unregister functions will be deleted
entirely, but we need this symbol so that subsystems can migrate over.

Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Cc: Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>
Cc: Matt Tolentino <matthew.e.tolentino@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/kobject.h b/include/linux/kobject.h
index e694261de90f..29dc444e3361 100644
--- a/include/linux/kobject.h
+++ b/include/linux/kobject.h
@@ -210,6 +210,8 @@ extern struct kset *kernel_kset;
 extern struct kobject *hypervisor_kobj;
 /* The global /sys/power/ kset for people to chain off of */
 extern struct kset *power_kset;
+/* The global /sys/firmware/ kset for people to chain off of */
+extern struct kset *firmware_kset;
 
 extern int __must_check subsystem_register(struct kset *);
 extern void subsystem_unregister(struct kset *);