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| author | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2008-10-16 12:40:26 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2008-10-16 12:40:26 -0700 |
| commit | c813b4e16ead3c3df98ac84419d4df2adf33fe01 (patch) | |
| tree | 2ca4a5b6966d833b6149e3dda7a4e85d1255779c /Documentation | |
| parent | c8d8a2321f9c4ee18fbcc399fdc2a77e580a03b9 (diff) | |
| parent | 02683ffdf655b4ae15245376ba6fea6d9e5829a6 (diff) | |
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Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core-2.6
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core-2.6: (46 commits)
UIO: Fix mapping of logical and virtual memory
UIO: add automata sercos3 pci card support
UIO: Change driver name of uio_pdrv
UIO: Add alignment warnings for uio-mem
Driver core: add bus_sort_breadthfirst() function
NET: convert the phy_device file to use bus_find_device_by_name
kobject: Cleanup kobject_rename and !CONFIG_SYSFS
kobject: Fix kobject_rename and !CONFIG_SYSFS
sysfs: Make dir and name args to sysfs_notify() const
platform: add new device registration helper
sysfs: use ilookup5() instead of ilookup5_nowait()
PNP: create device attributes via default device attributes
Driver core: make bus_find_device_by_name() more robust
usb: turn dev_warn+WARN_ON combos into dev_WARN
debug: use dev_WARN() rather than WARN_ON() in device_pm_add()
debug: Introduce a dev_WARN() function
sysfs: fix deadlock
device model: Do a quickcheck for driver binding before doing an expensive check
Driver core: Fix cleanup in device_create_vargs().
Driver core: Clarify device cleanup.
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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt | 5 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/kobject.txt | 4 |
2 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt index 82c561f3abbd..dd28a0d56981 100644 --- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt +++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt @@ -1714,6 +1714,11 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file autoconfiguration. Ranges are in pairs (memory base and size). + dynamic_printk + Enables pr_debug()/dev_dbg() calls if + CONFIG_DYNAMIC_PRINTK_DEBUG has been enabled. These can also + be switched on/off via <debugfs>/dynamic_printk/modules + print-fatal-signals= [KNL] debug: print fatal signals print-fatal-signals=1: print segfault info to diff --git a/Documentation/kobject.txt b/Documentation/kobject.txt index 51a8021ee532..f5d2aad65a67 100644 --- a/Documentation/kobject.txt +++ b/Documentation/kobject.txt @@ -118,6 +118,10 @@ the name of the kobject, call kobject_rename(): int kobject_rename(struct kobject *kobj, const char *new_name); +Note kobject_rename does perform any locking or have a solid notion of +what names are valid so the provide must provide their own sanity checking +and serialization. + There is a function called kobject_set_name() but that is legacy cruft and is being removed. If your code needs to call this function, it is incorrect and needs to be fixed. |