[GIT PATCH] Driver Core fixes for 2.6.16-rc2

From: Greg KH
Date: Mon Feb 06 2006 - 15:26:34 EST


Here are some driver core fixes for 2.6.16-rc2. They have all been in
the last -mm with no problems. They contain the following things:
- buffer overflow from input MODALIAS expansion
- spi Kconfig fixes
- fix IB and DRM's usage of sysfs dev files (both acked by the
various subsystem maintainers).
- oops fix in driver core with power files
- build warning fixes
- make it harder to use kobjects incorrectly (fixes an oops).

Please pull from:
rsync://rsync.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-2.6.git/
or if master.kernel.org hasn't synced up yet:
master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-2.6.git/

The full patch set will be sent to the linux-kernel mailing list, if
anyone wants to see them.

thanks,

greg k-h

Documentation/spi/butterfly | 23 +++++--
drivers/base/base.h | 4 +
drivers/base/bus.c | 3
drivers/base/power/resume.c | 3
drivers/base/power/shutdown.c | 2
drivers/base/power/suspend.c | 3
drivers/base/power/sysfs.c | 24 +++++--
drivers/base/sys.c | 3
drivers/char/drm/drmP.h | 10 +--
drivers/char/drm/drm_stub.c | 2
drivers/char/drm/drm_sysfs.c | 129 +++++++++---------------------------------
drivers/infiniband/core/ucm.c | 13 ----
drivers/spi/Kconfig | 10 ---
drivers/spi/spi_butterfly.c | 36 +++++------
fs/debugfs/file.c | 6 -
lib/kobject.c | 9 ++
lib/kobject_uevent.c | 2
17 files changed, 111 insertions(+), 171 deletions(-)
Adrian Bunk:
drivers/base/: proper prototypes

Benjamin Herrenschmidt:
Fix uevent buffer overflow in input layer

Chuck Ebbert:
kobject: don't oops on null kobject.name

David Brownell:
SPI: spi_butterfly, restore lost deltas

Greg Kroah-Hartman:
DRM: fix up classdev interface for drm core
IB: fix up major/minor sysfs interface for IB core
kobject_add() must have a valid name in order to succeed.

Pavel Machek:
Fix Userspace interface breakage in power/state

Russell King:
Fix compiler warning in driver core for CONFIG_HOTPLUG=N

Vincent Hanquez:
debugfs: trivial comment fix

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