devicefs requests

Pat,

1)  As new drivers pick up the model, check that all xxx_bus_type objects
get EXPORT_SYMBOLd and included in a include/xxxx header somewhere - My BIOS
EDD code walks the list of bus types looking for attached devices to compare
against (pci, ide, scsi, usb, ...).
ide_bus_type is in include/linux/ide.h but isn't EXPORT_SYMBOL;
usb_bus_type is in include/linux/usb.h but isn't EXPORT_SYMBOL;

Alternately, keep the list of registered bus types accessible via a
list_for_each type macro.  I like the exported symbols myself, it lets me
do:

struct edd_known_bus_types_s {
	struct bus_type *bus;
	const char *edd_type;
	int (*match)(struct device *edd_dev, struct device *dev);
};

static const struct edd_known_bus_types_s edd_known_bus_types[] = {
	{bus:&scsi_driverfs_bus_type, edd_type: "SCSI", match:
edd_match_scsidev},
//	{bus:&ide_bus_type,           edd_type: "ATA",  match: NULL},
//	{bus:&usb_bus_type,           edd_type: "USB",  match: NULL},
	{bus:NULL,                    edd_type: NULL,   match: NULL},
};

so I can supply my own match functions which match one type of device (e.g.
EDD's idea of a SCSI device) to that of the standard device.  I could
accomplish the same using well-known names for bus_type I suppose, and doing
a list_for_each until I find it.  Just a different thing getting exported, a
well-known name and a lookup method rather than the symbol itself.

2) bus_for_each_dev() is really restrictive right now due to all the locking
mechanisms in place.  In my code I'd like to, given a struct device *, walk
a list of devices on a given bus and compare each device with the given
device, returning a match, or not.  As it stands, bus_for_each_dev returns
either success (the callback worked for each device on the list), or failure
(the callback failed for some device on the list), but I don't see a
mechanism to return which device failed without excessive abuse of the
void*.  For now I've made a private copy of bus_for_each_dev which I've
mucked with the return the properly matching device, and wonder if this
couldn't be made more generic somehow.

Thoughts?

Thanks,
Matt

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Matt Domsch
Sr. Software Engineer, Lead Engineer, Architect
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