| From | Greg Kroah-Hartman <> | Subject | [PATCH 079/196] firmware: export firmware_kset so that people can use that instead of the braindead firmware_register interface | Date | Thu, 24 Jan 2008 23:10:17 -0800 |
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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> --- drivers/base/firmware.c | 3 ++- include/linux/kobject.h | 2 ++ 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/base/firmware.c b/drivers/base/firmware.c index 6a4e494..c7f635b 100644 --- a/drivers/base/firmware.c +++ b/drivers/base/firmware.c @@ -15,7 +15,8 @@ #include "base.h" -static struct kset *firmware_kset; +struct kset *firmware_kset; +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(firmware_kset); int firmware_register(struct kset *s) { diff --git a/include/linux/kobject.h b/include/linux/kobject.h index e694261..29dc444 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 *); -- 1.5.3.8
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