16 files changed, 109 insertions, 172 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/spi/butterfly b/Documentation/spi/butterfly
index a2e8c8d90e35..9927af7a629c 100644
--- a/Documentation/spi/butterfly
+++ b/Documentation/spi/butterfly
@@ -12,13 +12,20 @@ You can make this adapter from an old printer cable and solder things
 directly to the Butterfly.  Or (if you have the parts and skills) you
 can come up with something fancier, providing ciruit protection to the
 Butterfly and the printer port, or with a better power supply than two
-signal pins from the printer port.
+signal pins from the printer port.  Or for that matter, you can use
+similar cables to talk to many AVR boards, even a breadboard.
+
+This is more powerful than "ISP programming" cables since it lets kernel
+SPI protocol drivers interact with the AVR, and could even let the AVR
+issue interrupts to them.  Later, your protocol driver should work
+easily with a "real SPI controller", instead of this bitbanger.
 
 
 The first cable connections will hook Linux up to one SPI bus, with the
 AVR and a DataFlash chip; and to the AVR reset line.  This is all you
 need to reflash the firmware, and the pins are the standard Atmel "ISP"
-connector pins (used also on non-Butterfly AVR boards).
+connector pins (used also on non-Butterfly AVR boards).  On the parport
+side this is like "sp12" programming cables.
 
         Signal    Butterfly       Parport (DB-25)
         ------    ---------       ---------------
@@ -40,10 +47,14 @@ by clearing PORTB.[0-3]); (b) configure the mtd_dataflash driver; and
         SELECT  = J400.PB0/nSS  = pin 17/C3,nSELECT
         GND     = J400.GND      = pin 24/GND
 
-The "USI" controller, using J405, can be used for a second SPI bus.  That
-would let you talk to the AVR over SPI, running firmware that makes it act
-as an SPI slave, while letting either Linux or the AVR use the DataFlash.
-There are plenty of spare parport pins to wire this one up, such as:
+Or you could flash firmware making the AVR into an SPI slave (keeping the
+DataFlash in reset) and tweak the spi_butterfly driver to make it bind to
+the driver for your custom SPI-based protocol.
+
+The "USI" controller, using J405, can also be used for a second SPI bus.
+That would let you talk to the AVR using custom SPI-with-USI firmware,
+while letting either Linux or the AVR use the DataFlash.  There are plenty
+of spare parport pins to wire this one up, such as:
 
         Signal    Butterfly       Parport (DB-25)
         ------    ---------       ---------------
diff --git a/drivers/base/base.h b/drivers/base/base.h
index e3b548d46cff..5735b38582d0 100644
--- a/drivers/base/base.h
+++ b/drivers/base/base.h
@@ -19,6 +19,10 @@ extern void bus_remove_driver(struct device_driver *);
 extern void driver_detach(struct device_driver * drv);
 extern int driver_probe_device(struct device_driver *, struct device *);
 
+extern void sysdev_shutdown(void);
+extern int sysdev_suspend(pm_message_t state);
+extern int sysdev_resume(void);
+
 static inline struct class_device *to_class_dev(struct kobject *obj)
 {
         return container_of(obj, struct class_device, kobj);
diff --git a/drivers/base/power/resume.c b/drivers/base/power/resume.c
index 0a7aa07b9a2a..317edbf0feca 100644
--- a/drivers/base/power/resume.c
+++ b/drivers/base/power/resume.c
@@ -9,10 +9,9 @@
  */
 
 #include <linux/device.h>
+#include "../base.h"
 #include "power.h"
 
-extern int sysdev_resume(void);
-
 
 /**
  *      resume_device - Restore state for one device.
diff --git a/drivers/base/power/shutdown.c b/drivers/base/power/shutdown.c
index c2475f3134ea..8826a5b6673e 100644
--- a/drivers/base/power/shutdown.c
+++ b/drivers/base/power/shutdown.c
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@
 #include <linux/device.h>
 #include <asm/semaphore.h>
 
+#include "../base.h"
 #include "power.h"
 
 #define to_dev(node) container_of(node, struct device, kobj.entry)
@@ -28,7 +29,6 @@ extern struct subsystem devices_subsys;
  * they only get one called once when interrupts are disabled.
  */
 
-extern int sysdev_shutdown(void);
 
 /**
  * device_shutdown - call ->shutdown() on each device to shutdown.
diff --git a/drivers/base/power/suspend.c b/drivers/base/power/suspend.c
index 50501764d050..8660779fb288 100644
--- a/drivers/base/power/suspend.c
+++ b/drivers/base/power/suspend.c
@@ -9,10 +9,9 @@
  */
 
 #include <linux/device.h>
+#include "../base.h"
 #include "power.h"
 
-extern int sysdev_suspend(pm_message_t state);
-
 /*
  * The entries in the dpm_active list are in a depth first order, simply
  * because children are guaranteed to be discovered after parents, and
diff --git a/drivers/base/power/sysfs.c b/drivers/base/power/sysfs.c
index f3a0c562bcb5..40d7242a07c1 100644
--- a/drivers/base/power/sysfs.c
+++ b/drivers/base/power/sysfs.c
@@ -27,22 +27,30 @@
 
 static ssize_t state_show(struct device * dev, struct device_attribute *attr, char * buf)
 {
-        return sprintf(buf, "%u\n", dev->power.power_state.event);
+        if (dev->power.power_state.event)
+                return sprintf(buf, "2\n");
+        else
+                return sprintf(buf, "0\n");
 }
 
 static ssize_t state_store(struct device * dev, struct device_attribute *attr, const char * buf, size_t n)
 {
         pm_message_t state;
-        char * rest;
-        int error = 0;
+        int error = -EINVAL;
 
-        state.event = simple_strtoul(buf, &rest, 10);
-        if (*rest)
-                return -EINVAL;
-        if (state.event)
+        state.event = PM_EVENT_SUSPEND;
+        /* Older apps expected to write "3" here - confused with PCI D3 */
+        if ((n == 1) && !strcmp(buf, "3"))
                 error = dpm_runtime_suspend(dev, state);
-        else
+
+        if ((n == 1) && !strcmp(buf, "2"))
+                error = dpm_runtime_suspend(dev, state);
+
+        if ((n == 1) && !strcmp(buf, "0")) {
                 dpm_runtime_resume(dev);
+                error = 0;
+        }
+
         return error ? error : n;
 }
 
diff --git a/drivers/base/sys.c b/drivers/base/sys.c
index 66ed8f2fece5..6fc23ab127bd 100644
--- a/drivers/base/sys.c
+++ b/drivers/base/sys.c
@@ -21,8 +21,11 @@
 #include <linux/slab.h>
 #include <linux/string.h>
 #include <linux/pm.h>
+#include <linux/device.h>
 #include <asm/semaphore.h>
 
+#include "base.h"
+
 extern struct subsystem devices_subsys;
 
 #define to_sysdev(k) container_of(k, struct sys_device, kobj)
diff --git a/drivers/char/drm/drmP.h b/drivers/char/drm/drmP.h
index 71b8b32b075f..107df9fdba4e 100644
--- a/drivers/char/drm/drmP.h
+++ b/drivers/char/drm/drmP.h
@@ -980,7 +980,7 @@ extern int drm_put_head(drm_head_t * head);
 extern unsigned int drm_debug;
 extern unsigned int drm_cards_limit;
 extern drm_head_t **drm_heads;
-extern struct drm_sysfs_class *drm_class;
+extern struct class *drm_class;
 extern struct proc_dir_entry *drm_proc_root;
 
                                 /* Proc support (drm_proc.h) */
@@ -1011,11 +1011,9 @@ extern void __drm_pci_free(drm_device_t * dev, drm_dma_handle_t * dmah);
 extern void drm_pci_free(drm_device_t * dev, drm_dma_handle_t * dmah);
 
                                /* sysfs support (drm_sysfs.c) */
-struct drm_sysfs_class;
-extern struct drm_sysfs_class *drm_sysfs_create(struct module *owner,
-                                                char *name);
-extern void drm_sysfs_destroy(struct drm_sysfs_class *cs);
-extern struct class_device *drm_sysfs_device_add(struct drm_sysfs_class *cs,
+extern struct class *drm_sysfs_create(struct module *owner, char *name);
+extern void drm_sysfs_destroy(struct class *cs);
+extern struct class_device *drm_sysfs_device_add(struct class *cs,
                                                  drm_head_t *head);
 extern void drm_sysfs_device_remove(struct class_device *class_dev);
 
diff --git a/drivers/char/drm/drm_stub.c b/drivers/char/drm/drm_stub.c
index 7a9263ff3007..68073e14fdec 100644
--- a/drivers/char/drm/drm_stub.c
+++ b/drivers/char/drm/drm_stub.c
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ module_param_named(cards_limit, drm_cards_limit, int, 0444);
 module_param_named(debug, drm_debug, int, 0600);
 
 drm_head_t **drm_heads;
-struct drm_sysfs_class *drm_class;
+struct class *drm_class;
 struct proc_dir_entry *drm_proc_root;
 
 static int drm_fill_in_dev(drm_device_t * dev, struct pci_dev *pdev,
diff --git a/drivers/char/drm/drm_sysfs.c b/drivers/char/drm/drm_sysfs.c
index 68e43ddc16ae..0b9f98a7eb10 100644
--- a/drivers/char/drm/drm_sysfs.c
+++ b/drivers/char/drm/drm_sysfs.c
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+
 /*
  * drm_sysfs.c - Modifications to drm_sysfs_class.c to support
  *               extra sysfs attribute from DRM. Normal drm_sysfs_class
@@ -19,36 +20,6 @@
 #include "drm_core.h"
 #include "drmP.h"
 
-struct drm_sysfs_class {
-        struct class_device_attribute attr;
-        struct class class;
-};
-#define to_drm_sysfs_class(d) container_of(d, struct drm_sysfs_class, class)
-
-struct simple_dev {
-        dev_t dev;
-        struct class_device class_dev;
-};
-#define to_simple_dev(d) container_of(d, struct simple_dev, class_dev)
-
-static void release_simple_dev(struct class_device *class_dev)
-{
-        struct simple_dev *s_dev = to_simple_dev(class_dev);
-        kfree(s_dev);
-}
-
-static ssize_t show_dev(struct class_device *class_dev, char *buf)
-{
-        struct simple_dev *s_dev = to_simple_dev(class_dev);
-        return print_dev_t(buf, s_dev->dev);
-}
-
-static void drm_sysfs_class_release(struct class *class)
-{
-        struct drm_sysfs_class *cs = to_drm_sysfs_class(class);
-        kfree(cs);
-}
-
 /* Display the version of drm_core. This doesn't work right in current design */
 static ssize_t version_show(struct class *dev, char *buf)
 {
@@ -69,38 +40,16 @@ static CLASS_ATTR(version, S_IRUGO, version_show, NULL);
  * Note, the pointer created here is to be destroyed when finished by making a
  * call to drm_sysfs_destroy().
  */
-struct drm_sysfs_class *drm_sysfs_create(struct module *owner, char *name)
+struct class *drm_sysfs_create(struct module *owner, char *name)
 {
-        struct drm_sysfs_class *cs;
-        int retval;
-
-        cs = kmalloc(sizeof(*cs), GFP_KERNEL);
-        if (!cs) {
-                retval = -ENOMEM;
-                goto error;
-        }
-        memset(cs, 0x00, sizeof(*cs));
-
-        cs->class.name = name;
-        cs->class.class_release = drm_sysfs_class_release;
-        cs->class.release = release_simple_dev;
-
-        cs->attr.attr.name = "dev";
-        cs->attr.attr.mode = S_IRUGO;
-        cs->attr.attr.owner = owner;
-        cs->attr.show = show_dev;
-        cs->attr.store = NULL;
-
-        retval = class_register(&cs->class);
-        if (retval)
-                goto error;
-        class_create_file(&cs->class, &class_attr_version);
-
-        return cs;
-
-      error:
-        kfree(cs);
-        return ERR_PTR(retval);
+        struct class *class;
+
+        class = class_create(owner, name);
+        if (!class)
+                return class;
+
+        class_create_file(class, &class_attr_version);
+        return class;
 }
 
 /**
@@ -110,12 +59,13 @@ struct drm_sysfs_class *drm_sysfs_create(struct module *owner, char *name)
  * Note, the pointer to be destroyed must have been created with a call to
  * drm_sysfs_create().
  */
-void drm_sysfs_destroy(struct drm_sysfs_class *cs)
+void drm_sysfs_destroy(struct class *class)
 {
-        if ((cs == NULL) || (IS_ERR(cs)))
+        if ((class == NULL) || (IS_ERR(class)))
                 return;
 
-        class_unregister(&cs->class);
+        class_remove_file(class, &class_attr_version);
+        class_destroy(class);
 }
 
 static ssize_t show_dri(struct class_device *class_device, char *buf)
@@ -132,7 +82,7 @@ static struct class_device_attribute class_device_attrs[] = {
 
 /**
  * drm_sysfs_device_add - adds a class device to sysfs for a character driver
- * @cs: pointer to the struct drm_sysfs_class that this device should be registered to.
+ * @cs: pointer to the struct class that this device should be registered to.
  * @dev: the dev_t for the device to be added.
  * @device: a pointer to a struct device that is assiociated with this class device.
  * @fmt: string for the class device's name
@@ -141,46 +91,26 @@ static struct class_device_attribute class_device_attrs[] = {
  * class.  A "dev" file will be created, showing the dev_t for the device.  The
  * pointer to the struct class_device will be returned from the call.  Any further
  * sysfs files that might be required can be created using this pointer.
- * Note: the struct drm_sysfs_class passed to this function must have previously been
+ * Note: the struct class passed to this function must have previously been
  * created with a call to drm_sysfs_create().
  */
-struct class_device *drm_sysfs_device_add(struct drm_sysfs_class *cs,
-                                          drm_head_t *head)
+struct class_device *drm_sysfs_device_add(struct class *cs, drm_head_t *head)
 {
-        struct simple_dev *s_dev = NULL;
-        int i, retval;
-
-        if ((cs == NULL) || (IS_ERR(cs))) {
-                retval = -ENODEV;
-                goto error;
-        }
-
-        s_dev = kmalloc(sizeof(*s_dev), GFP_KERNEL);
-        if (!s_dev) {
-                retval = -ENOMEM;
-                goto error;
-        }
-        memset(s_dev, 0x00, sizeof(*s_dev));
-
-        s_dev->dev = MKDEV(DRM_MAJOR, head->minor);
-        s_dev->class_dev.dev = &(head->dev->pdev)->dev;
-        s_dev->class_dev.class = &cs->class;
+        struct class_device *class_dev;
+        int i;
 
-        snprintf(s_dev->class_dev.class_id, BUS_ID_SIZE, "card%d", head->minor);
-        retval = class_device_register(&s_dev->class_dev);
-        if (retval)
-                goto error;
+        class_dev = class_device_create(cs, NULL,
+                                        MKDEV(DRM_MAJOR, head->minor),
+                                        &(head->dev->pdev)->dev,
+                                        "card%d", head->minor);
+        if (!class_dev)
+                return NULL;
 
-        class_device_create_file(&s_dev->class_dev, &cs->attr);
-        class_set_devdata(&s_dev->class_dev, head);
+        class_set_devdata(class_dev, head);
 
         for (i = 0; i < ARRAY_SIZE(class_device_attrs); i++)
-                class_device_create_file(&s_dev->class_dev, &class_device_attrs[i]);
-        return &s_dev->class_dev;
-
-error:
-        kfree(s_dev);
-        return ERR_PTR(retval);
+                class_device_create_file(class_dev, &class_device_attrs[i]);
+        return class_dev;
 }
 
 /**
@@ -192,10 +122,9 @@ error:
  */
 void drm_sysfs_device_remove(struct class_device *class_dev)
 {
-        struct simple_dev *s_dev = to_simple_dev(class_dev);
         int i;
 
         for (i = 0; i < ARRAY_SIZE(class_device_attrs); i++)
-                class_device_remove_file(&s_dev->class_dev, &class_device_attrs[i]);
-        class_device_unregister(&s_dev->class_dev);
+                class_device_remove_file(class_dev, &class_device_attrs[i]);
+        class_device_unregister(class_dev);
 }
diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/core/ucm.c b/drivers/infiniband/core/ucm.c
index e95c4293a496..f6a05965a4e8 100644
--- a/drivers/infiniband/core/ucm.c
+++ b/drivers/infiniband/core/ucm.c
@@ -1319,15 +1319,6 @@ static struct class ucm_class = {
         .release = ib_ucm_release_class_dev
 };
 
-static ssize_t show_dev(struct class_device *class_dev, char *buf)
-{
-        struct ib_ucm_device *dev;
-        
-        dev = container_of(class_dev, struct ib_ucm_device, class_dev);
-        return print_dev_t(buf, dev->dev.dev);
-}
-static CLASS_DEVICE_ATTR(dev, S_IRUGO, show_dev, NULL);
-
 static ssize_t show_ibdev(struct class_device *class_dev, char *buf)
 {
         struct ib_ucm_device *dev;
@@ -1364,15 +1355,13 @@ static void ib_ucm_add_one(struct ib_device *device)
 
         ucm_dev->class_dev.class = &ucm_class;
         ucm_dev->class_dev.dev = device->dma_device;
+        ucm_dev->class_dev.devt = ucm_dev->dev.dev;
         snprintf(ucm_dev->class_dev.class_id, BUS_ID_SIZE, "ucm%d",
                  ucm_dev->devnum);
         if (class_device_register(&ucm_dev->class_dev))
                 goto err_cdev;
 
         if (class_device_create_file(&ucm_dev->class_dev,
-                                     &class_device_attr_dev))
-                goto err_class;
-        if (class_device_create_file(&ucm_dev->class_dev,
                                      &class_device_attr_ibdev))
                 goto err_class;
 
diff --git a/drivers/spi/Kconfig b/drivers/spi/Kconfig
index b77dbd63e596..7a75faeb0526 100644
--- a/drivers/spi/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/spi/Kconfig
@@ -75,16 +75,6 @@ config SPI_BUTTERFLY
           inexpensive battery powered microcontroller evaluation board.
           This same cable can be used to flash new firmware.
 
-config SPI_BUTTERFLY
-        tristate "Parallel port adapter for AVR Butterfly (DEVELOPMENT)"
-        depends on SPI_MASTER && PARPORT && EXPERIMENTAL
-        select SPI_BITBANG
-        help
-          This uses a custom parallel port cable to connect to an AVR
-          Butterfly <http://www.atmel.com/products/avr/butterfly>, an
-          inexpensive battery powered microcontroller evaluation board.
-          This same cable can be used to flash new firmware.
-
 #
 # Add new SPI master controllers in alphabetical order above this line
 #
diff --git a/drivers/spi/spi_butterfly.c b/drivers/spi/spi_butterfly.c
index 79a3c59615ab..ff9e5faa4dc9 100644
--- a/drivers/spi/spi_butterfly.c
+++ b/drivers/spi/spi_butterfly.c
@@ -163,21 +163,20 @@ static void butterfly_chipselect(struct spi_device *spi, int value)
         struct butterfly        *pp = spidev_to_pp(spi);
 
         /* set default clock polarity */
-        if (value)
+        if (value != BITBANG_CS_INACTIVE)
                 setsck(spi, spi->mode & SPI_CPOL);
 
         /* no chipselect on this USI link config */
         if (is_usidev(spi))
                 return;
 
-        /* here, value == "activate or not" */
-
-        /* most PARPORT_CONTROL_* bits are negated */
+        /* here, value == "activate or not";
+         * most PARPORT_CONTROL_* bits are negated, so we must
+         * morph it to value == "bit value to write in control register"
+         */
         if (spi_cs_bit == PARPORT_CONTROL_INIT)
                 value = !value;
 
-        /* here, value == "bit value to write in control register"  */
-
         parport_frob_control(pp->port, spi_cs_bit, value ? spi_cs_bit : 0);
 }
 
@@ -202,7 +201,9 @@ butterfly_txrx_word_mode0(struct spi_device *spi,
 
 /* override default partitioning with cmdlinepart */
 static struct mtd_partition partitions[] = { {
-        /* JFFS2 wants partitions of 4*N blocks for this device ... */
+        /* JFFS2 wants partitions of 4*N blocks for this device,
+         * so sectors 0 and 1 can't be partitions by themselves.
+         */
 
         /* sector 0 = 8 pages * 264 bytes/page (1 block)
          * sector 1 = 248 pages * 264 bytes/page
@@ -316,8 +317,9 @@ static void butterfly_attach(struct parport *p)
         if (status < 0)
                 goto clean2;
 
-        /* Bus 1 lets us talk to at45db041b (firmware disables AVR)
-         * or AVR (firmware resets at45, acts as spi slave)
+        /* Bus 1 lets us talk to at45db041b (firmware disables AVR SPI), AVR
+         * (firmware resets at45, acts as spi slave) or neither (we ignore
+         * both, AVR uses AT45).  Here we expect firmware for the first option.
          */
         pp->info[0].max_speed_hz = 15 * 1000 * 1000;
         strcpy(pp->info[0].modalias, "mtd_dataflash");
@@ -330,7 +332,9 @@ static void butterfly_attach(struct parport *p)
                                 pp->dataflash->dev.bus_id);
 
 #ifdef  HAVE_USI
-        /* even more custom AVR firmware */
+        /* Bus 2 is only for talking to the AVR, and it can work no
+         * matter who masters bus 1; needs appropriate AVR firmware.
+         */
         pp->info[1].max_speed_hz = 10 /* ?? */ * 1000 * 1000;
         strcpy(pp->info[1].modalias, "butterfly");
         // pp->info[1].platform_data = ... TBD ... ;
@@ -378,13 +382,8 @@ static void butterfly_detach(struct parport *p)
         pp = butterfly;
         butterfly = NULL;
 
-#ifdef  HAVE_USI
-        spi_unregister_device(pp->butterfly);
-        pp->butterfly = NULL;
-#endif
-        spi_unregister_device(pp->dataflash);
-        pp->dataflash = NULL;
-
+        /* stop() unregisters child devices too */
+        pdev = to_platform_device(pp->bitbang.master->cdev.dev);
         status = spi_bitbang_stop(&pp->bitbang);
 
         /* turn off VCC */
@@ -394,8 +393,6 @@ static void butterfly_detach(struct parport *p)
         parport_release(pp->pd);
         parport_unregister_device(pp->pd);
 
-        pdev = to_platform_device(pp->bitbang.master->cdev.dev);
-
         (void) spi_master_put(pp->bitbang.master);
 
         platform_device_unregister(pdev);
@@ -420,4 +417,5 @@ static void __exit butterfly_exit(void)
 }
 module_exit(butterfly_exit);
 
+MODULE_DESCRIPTION("Parport Adapter driver for AVR Butterfly");
 MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
diff --git a/fs/debugfs/file.c b/fs/debugfs/file.c
index efc97d9b7860..d575452cd9f7 100644
--- a/fs/debugfs/file.c
+++ b/fs/debugfs/file.c
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ static u64 debugfs_u8_get(void *data)
 DEFINE_SIMPLE_ATTRIBUTE(fops_u8, debugfs_u8_get, debugfs_u8_set, "%llu\n");
 
 /**
- * debugfs_create_u8 - create a file in the debugfs filesystem that is used to read and write a unsigned 8 bit value.
+ * debugfs_create_u8 - create a file in the debugfs filesystem that is used to read and write an unsigned 8 bit value.
  *
  * @name: a pointer to a string containing the name of the file to create.
  * @mode: the permission that the file should have
@@ -98,7 +98,7 @@ static u64 debugfs_u16_get(void *data)
 DEFINE_SIMPLE_ATTRIBUTE(fops_u16, debugfs_u16_get, debugfs_u16_set, "%llu\n");
 
 /**
- * debugfs_create_u16 - create a file in the debugfs filesystem that is used to read and write a unsigned 8 bit value.
+ * debugfs_create_u16 - create a file in the debugfs filesystem that is used to read and write an unsigned 16 bit value.
  *
  * @name: a pointer to a string containing the name of the file to create.
  * @mode: the permission that the file should have
@@ -140,7 +140,7 @@ static u64 debugfs_u32_get(void *data)
 DEFINE_SIMPLE_ATTRIBUTE(fops_u32, debugfs_u32_get, debugfs_u32_set, "%llu\n");
 
 /**
- * debugfs_create_u32 - create a file in the debugfs filesystem that is used to read and write a unsigned 8 bit value.
+ * debugfs_create_u32 - create a file in the debugfs filesystem that is used to read and write an unsigned 32 bit value.
  *
  * @name: a pointer to a string containing the name of the file to create.
  * @mode: the permission that the file should have
diff --git a/lib/kobject.c b/lib/kobject.c
index 7a0e6809490d..efe67fa96a71 100644
--- a/lib/kobject.c
+++ b/lib/kobject.c
@@ -72,6 +72,8 @@ static int get_kobj_path_length(struct kobject *kobj)
          * Add 1 to strlen for leading '/' of each level.
          */
         do {
+                if (kobject_name(parent) == NULL)
+                        return 0;
                 length += strlen(kobject_name(parent)) + 1;
                 parent = parent->parent;
         } while (parent);
@@ -107,6 +109,8 @@ char *kobject_get_path(struct kobject *kobj, gfp_t gfp_mask)
         int len;
 
         len = get_kobj_path_length(kobj);
+        if (len == 0)
+                return NULL;
         path = kmalloc(len, gfp_mask);
         if (!path)
                 return NULL;
@@ -162,6 +166,11 @@ int kobject_add(struct kobject * kobj)
                 return -ENOENT;
         if (!kobj->k_name)
                 kobj->k_name = kobj->name;
+        if (!kobj->k_name) {
+                pr_debug("kobject attempted to be registered with no name!\n");
+                WARN_ON(1);
+                return -EINVAL;
+        }
         parent = kobject_get(kobj->parent);
 
         pr_debug("kobject %s: registering. parent: %s, set: %s\n",
diff --git a/lib/kobject_uevent.c b/lib/kobject_uevent.c
index f56e27ae9d52..1b1985c136ec 100644
--- a/lib/kobject_uevent.c
+++ b/lib/kobject_uevent.c
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@
 #include <linux/kobject.h>
 #include <net/sock.h>
 
-#define BUFFER_SIZE     1024    /* buffer for the variables */
+#define BUFFER_SIZE     2048    /* buffer for the variables */
 #define NUM_ENVP        32      /* number of env pointers */
 
 #if defined(CONFIG_HOTPLUG) && defined(CONFIG_NET)