linux/Documentation/ABI/stable
Benjamin Herrenschmidt 5590f3196b drivers/core/of: Add symlink to device-tree from devices with an OF node
So I've been annoyed lately with having a bunch of devices such as i2c
eeproms (for use by VPDs, server world !) and other bits and pieces that
I want to be able to identify from userspace, and possibly provide
additional data about from FW.

Basically, it boils down to correlating the sysfs device with the OF
tree device node, so that user space can use device-tree info such as
additional "location" or "label" (or whatever else we can come up with)
propreties to identify a given device, or get some attributes of use
about it, etc...

Now, so far, we've done that in some subsystem in a fairly ad-hoc basis
using "devspec" properties. For example, PCI creates them if it can
correlate the probed device with a DT node. Some powerpc specific busses
do that too.

However, i2c doesn't and it would be nice to have something more generic
since technically any device can have a corresponding device tree node.

This patch adds an "of_node" symlink to devices that have a non-NULL
dev->of_node pointer, the patch is pretty trivial and seems to work just
fine for me.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Acked-by: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2015-03-25 14:56:58 +01:00
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firewire-cdev
o2cb
syscalls
sysfs-acpi-pmprofile
sysfs-bus-firewire
sysfs-bus-usb USB / PM: Drop CONFIG_PM_RUNTIME from the USB core 2014-12-04 00:51:54 +01:00
sysfs-bus-xen-backend
sysfs-class-backlight
sysfs-class-rfkill
sysfs-class-tpm tpm: device class for tpm 2015-01-17 14:00:10 +01:00
sysfs-class-ubi
sysfs-class-udc usb: gadget: udc: document our sysfs ABI 2014-11-03 10:01:00 -06:00
sysfs-devices drivers/core/of: Add symlink to device-tree from devices with an OF node 2015-03-25 14:56:58 +01:00
sysfs-devices-node mm: remove noisy remainder of the scan_unevictable interface 2014-10-09 22:25:55 -04:00
sysfs-devices-system-cpu powerpc: Document sysfs DSCR interface 2014-05-28 13:35:40 +10:00
sysfs-devices-system-xen_memory
sysfs-driver-ib_srp IB/srp: Add multichannel support 2014-11-12 12:05:24 +01:00
sysfs-driver-qla2xxx
sysfs-driver-usb-usbtmc
sysfs-driver-w1_ds28e04
sysfs-firmware-efi-vars
sysfs-firmware-opal-dump
sysfs-firmware-opal-elog
sysfs-module
sysfs-transport-srp
thermal-notification
vdso