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Patrick Mochel authored
This is the first step in morphing struct subsystem into something meaningful. A subsystem is defined simply as a list of kobjects of a certain type, which is far too generic. A subsystem should be representative of a large entity of code (i.e. a subsystem of the kernel), not just a simple list. This changeset: - Creates struct kobj_type, a descriptor of the type a kobject is embedded in. - Extracts the fields that are specific to a particular object type from struct subsystem and puts them in struct kobj_type, which are - the object's release method. - the sysfs operations for the object type. - the default attributes of the object type. - Adds ptr to struct kobject to point to its type descriptor. - Converts the existing subsystem definitions to define struct kobj_type. struct kobj_type's are not registered, as they do not have any explicit representation in the object hierarchy, nor do they have any fields that need runtime initialization. A kobject's ktype should be set when it is registered, like its subsystem. Note this obviates the need for defining a struct subsystem when an object type does not need to be kept in a global list.
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