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| author | Andi Kleen | 2010-09-08 16:54:17 +0200 |
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| committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman | 2010-10-22 10:16:43 -0700 |
| commit | e52eec13cd6b7f30ab19081b387813e03e592ae5 (patch) | |
| tree | 7b327e0b9283c578fb10922edcf6e10b3b8fd943 /block | |
| parent | 39aba963d937edb20db7d9d93e6dda5d2adfdcdd (diff) | |
SYSFS: Allow boot time switching between deprecated and modern sysfs layout
I have some systems which need legacy sysfs due to old tools that are
making assumptions that a directory can never be a symlink to another
directory, and it's a big hazzle to compile separate kernels for them.
This patch turns CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED into a run time option
that can be switched on/off the kernel command line. This way
the same binary can be used in both cases with just a option
on the command line.
The old CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 option is still there to set
the default. I kept the weird name to not break existing
config files.
Also the compat code can be still completely disabled by undefining
CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED_SWITCH -- just the optimizer takes
care of this now instead of lots of ifdefs. This makes the code
look nicer.
v2: This is an updated version on top of Kay's patch to only
handle the block devices. I tested it on my old systems
and that seems to work.
Cc: axboe@kernel.dk
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'block')
| -rw-r--r-- | block/genhd.c | 7 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/block/genhd.c b/block/genhd.c index 59a2db6fecef..4e28a840bde0 100644 --- a/block/genhd.c +++ b/block/genhd.c @@ -22,9 +22,7 @@ #include "blk.h" static DEFINE_MUTEX(block_class_lock); -#ifndef CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED struct kobject *block_depr; -#endif /* for extended dynamic devt allocation, currently only one major is used */ #define MAX_EXT_DEVT (1 << MINORBITS) @@ -803,10 +801,9 @@ static int __init genhd_device_init(void) register_blkdev(BLOCK_EXT_MAJOR, "blkext"); -#ifndef CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED /* create top-level block dir */ - block_depr = kobject_create_and_add("block", NULL); -#endif + if (!sysfs_deprecated) + block_depr = kobject_create_and_add("block", NULL); return 0; } |