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-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/ext2.txt10
-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/ext3.txt4
-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/squashfs.txt2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/sysfs.txt50
4 files changed, 36 insertions, 30 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/ext2.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/ext2.txt
index 4333e836c49..23448551cab 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/ext2.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/ext2.txt
@@ -373,10 +373,10 @@ Filesystem Resizing http://ext2resize.sourceforge.net/
Compression (*) http://e2compr.sourceforge.net/
Implementations for:
-Windows 95/98/NT/2000 http://uranus.it.swin.edu.au/~jn/linux/Explore2fs.htm
-Windows 95 (*) http://www.yipton.demon.co.uk/content.html#FSDEXT2
+Windows 95/98/NT/2000 http://www.chrysocome.net/explore2fs
+Windows 95 (*) http://www.yipton.net/content.html#FSDEXT2
DOS client (*) ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/system/filesystems/ext2/
-OS/2 http://perso.wanadoo.fr/matthieu.willm/ext2-os2/
-RISC OS client ftp://ftp.barnet.ac.uk/pub/acorn/armlinux/iscafs/
+OS/2 (*) ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/system/filesystems/ext2/
+RISC OS client http://www.esw-heim.tu-clausthal.de/~marco/smorbrod/IscaFS/
-(*) no longer actively developed/supported (as of Apr 2001)
+(*) no longer actively developed/supported (as of Mar 2009)
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/ext3.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/ext3.txt
index 9dd2a3bb2ac..e5f3833a6ef 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/ext3.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/ext3.txt
@@ -198,5 +198,5 @@ kernel source: <file:fs/ext3/>
programs: http://e2fsprogs.sourceforge.net/
http://ext2resize.sourceforge.net
-useful links: http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-fs7/
- http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-fs8/
+useful links: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/l-fs7.html
+ http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/l-fs8.html
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/squashfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/squashfs.txt
index 3e79e4a7a39..b324c033035 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/squashfs.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/squashfs.txt
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ Squashfs filesystem features versus Cramfs:
Squashfs Cramfs
-Max filesystem size: 2^64 16 MiB
+Max filesystem size: 2^64 256 MiB
Max file size: ~ 2 TiB 16 MiB
Max files: unlimited unlimited
Max directories: unlimited unlimited
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/sysfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/sysfs.txt
index 9e9c348275a..7e81e37c0b1 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/sysfs.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/sysfs.txt
@@ -2,8 +2,10 @@
sysfs - _The_ filesystem for exporting kernel objects.
Patrick Mochel <mochel@osdl.org>
+Mike Murphy <mamurph@cs.clemson.edu>
-10 January 2003
+Revised: 22 February 2009
+Original: 10 January 2003
What it is:
@@ -64,12 +66,13 @@ An attribute definition is simply:
struct attribute {
char * name;
+ struct module *owner;
mode_t mode;
};
-int sysfs_create_file(struct kobject * kobj, struct attribute * attr);
-void sysfs_remove_file(struct kobject * kobj, struct attribute * attr);
+int sysfs_create_file(struct kobject * kobj, const struct attribute * attr);
+void sysfs_remove_file(struct kobject * kobj, const struct attribute * attr);
A bare attribute contains no means to read or write the value of the
@@ -80,9 +83,11 @@ a specific object type.
For example, the driver model defines struct device_attribute like:
struct device_attribute {
- struct attribute attr;
- ssize_t (*show)(struct device * dev, char * buf);
- ssize_t (*store)(struct device * dev, const char * buf);
+ struct attribute attr;
+ ssize_t (*show)(struct device *dev, struct device_attribute *attr,
+ char *buf);
+ ssize_t (*store)(struct device *dev, struct device_attribute *attr,
+ const char *buf, size_t count);
};
int device_create_file(struct device *, struct device_attribute *);
@@ -90,12 +95,8 @@ void device_remove_file(struct device *, struct device_attribute *);
It also defines this helper for defining device attributes:
-#define DEVICE_ATTR(_name, _mode, _show, _store) \
-struct device_attribute dev_attr_##_name = { \
- .attr = {.name = __stringify(_name) , .mode = _mode }, \
- .show = _show, \
- .store = _store, \
-};
+#define DEVICE_ATTR(_name, _mode, _show, _store) \
+struct device_attribute dev_attr_##_name = __ATTR(_name, _mode, _show, _store)
For example, declaring
@@ -107,9 +108,9 @@ static struct device_attribute dev_attr_foo = {
.attr = {
.name = "foo",
.mode = S_IWUSR | S_IRUGO,
+ .show = show_foo,
+ .store = store_foo,
},
- .show = show_foo,
- .store = store_foo,
};
@@ -161,10 +162,12 @@ To read or write attributes, show() or store() methods must be
specified when declaring the attribute. The method types should be as
simple as those defined for device attributes:
- ssize_t (*show)(struct device * dev, char * buf);
- ssize_t (*store)(struct device * dev, const char * buf);
+ssize_t (*show)(struct device * dev, struct device_attribute * attr,
+ char * buf);
+ssize_t (*store)(struct device * dev, struct device_attribute * attr,
+ const char * buf);
-IOW, they should take only an object and a buffer as parameters.
+IOW, they should take only an object, an attribute, and a buffer as parameters.
sysfs allocates a buffer of size (PAGE_SIZE) and passes it to the
@@ -299,14 +302,16 @@ The following interface layers currently exist in sysfs:
Structure:
struct device_attribute {
- struct attribute attr;
- ssize_t (*show)(struct device * dev, char * buf);
- ssize_t (*store)(struct device * dev, const char * buf);
+ struct attribute attr;
+ ssize_t (*show)(struct device *dev, struct device_attribute *attr,
+ char *buf);
+ ssize_t (*store)(struct device *dev, struct device_attribute *attr,
+ const char *buf, size_t count);
};
Declaring:
-DEVICE_ATTR(_name, _str, _mode, _show, _store);
+DEVICE_ATTR(_name, _mode, _show, _store);
Creation/Removal:
@@ -342,7 +347,8 @@ Structure:
struct driver_attribute {
struct attribute attr;
ssize_t (*show)(struct device_driver *, char * buf);
- ssize_t (*store)(struct device_driver *, const char * buf);
+ ssize_t (*store)(struct device_driver *, const char * buf,
+ size_t count);
};
Declaring: