Direct access to the struct bus_type dev_root pointer is going away soon
so replace that with a call to bus_get_dev_root() instead, which is what
it is there for.

In doing so, remove the unneded kobject structure that was only being
created to cause a subdirectory for the attributes.  The name of the
attribute group is the correct way to do this, saving code and
complexity as well as allowing the attributes to properly show up to
userspace tools (the raw kobject would not allow that.)

Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@kernel.org>
Cc: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Cc: linux-pm@vger.kernel.org
Acked-by: Huang Rui <ray.huang@.amd.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230313182918.1312597-20-gregkh@linuxfoundation.orgSigned-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

Direct access to the struct bus_type dev_root pointer is going away soon
so replace that with a call to bus_get_dev_root() instead, which is what
it is there for.

Cc: Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Sven Schnelle <svens@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Ilya Leoshkevich <iii@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: linux-s390@vger.kernel.org
Acked-by: Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230313182918.1312597-19-gregkh@linuxfoundation.orgSigned-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

Direct access to the struct bus_type dev_root pointer is going away soon
so replace that with a call to bus_get_dev_root() instead, which is what
it is there for.

Cc: Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Sven Schnelle <svens@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: linux-s390@vger.kernel.org
Acked-by: Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230313182918.1312597-18-gregkh@linuxfoundation.orgSigned-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

Direct access to the struct bus_type dev_root pointer is going away soon
so replace that with a call to bus_get_dev_root() instead, which is what
it is there for.

Cc: Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp>
Cc: Rich Felker <dalias@libc.org>
Cc: linux-sh@vger.kernel.org
Acked-by: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230313182918.1312597-17-gregkh@linuxfoundation.orgSigned-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

Direct access to the struct bus_type dev_root pointer is going away soon
so replace that with a call to bus_get_dev_root() instead, which is what
it is there for.

Cc: Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp>
Cc: Rich Felker <dalias@libc.org>
Cc: linux-sh@vger.kernel.org
Acked-by: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230313182918.1312597-16-gregkh@linuxfoundation.orgSigned-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

Direct access to the struct bus_type dev_root pointer is going away soon
so replace that with a call to bus_get_dev_root() instead, which is what
it is there for.

Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Cc: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230313182918.1312597-15-gregkh@linuxfoundation.orgSigned-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

Direct access to the struct bus_type dev_root pointer is going away soon
so replace that with a call to bus_get_dev_root() instead, which is what
it is there for.

Cc: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Cc: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Acked-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> (powerpc)
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230313182918.1312597-14-gregkh@linuxfoundation.orgSigned-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

Direct access to the struct bus_type dev_root pointer is going away soon
so replace that with a call to bus_get_dev_root() instead, which is what
it is there for.

Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Cc: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu>
Cc: Wolfram Sang <wsa+renesas@sang-engineering.com>
Cc: Joel Stanley <joel@jms.id.au>
Cc: Liang He <windhl@126.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@inria.fr>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230313182918.1312597-13-gregkh@linuxfoundation.orgSigned-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

Direct access to the struct bus_type dev_root pointer is going away soon
so replace that with a call to bus_get_dev_root() instead, which is what
it is there for.

Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Cc: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230313182918.1312597-12-gregkh@linuxfoundation.orgSigned-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

Direct access to the struct bus_type dev_root pointer is going away soon
so replace that with a call to bus_get_dev_root() instead, which is what
it is there for.

Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Cc: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
Cc: James Morse <james.morse@arm.com>
Cc: Kristina Martsenko <kristina.martsenko@arm.com>
Cc: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
Cc: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
Cc: Vladimir Murzin <vladimir.murzin@arm.com>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230313182918.1312597-11-gregkh@linuxfoundation.orgSigned-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

Direct access to the struct bus_type dev_root pointer is going away soon
so replace that with a call to bus_get_dev_root() instead, which is what
it is there for.

Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: x86@kernel.org
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230313182918.1312597-10-gregkh@linuxfoundation.orgSigned-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

Direct access to the struct bus_type dev_root pointer is going away soon
so replace that with a call to bus_get_dev_root() instead, which is what
it is there for.

Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: x86@kernel.org
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230313182918.1312597-9-gregkh@linuxfoundation.orgSigned-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

Direct access to the struct bus_type dev_root pointer is going away soon
so replace that with a call to bus_get_dev_root() instead, which is what
it is there for.

Cc: Lai Jiangshan <jiangshanlai@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230313182918.1312597-8-gregkh@linuxfoundation.orgSigned-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

Direct access to the struct bus_type dev_root pointer is going away soon
so replace that with a call to bus_get_dev_root() instead, which is what
it is there for.

Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Valentin Schneider <vschneid@redhat.com>
Cc: Phil Auld <pauld@redhat.com>
Cc: Steven Price <steven.price@arm.com>
Cc: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@redhat.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Vincent Donnefort <vdonnefort@google.com>
Cc: Kuppuswamy Sathyanarayanan <sathyanarayanan.kuppuswamy@linux.intel.com>
Cc: "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230313182918.1312597-7-gregkh@linuxfoundation.orgSigned-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

Direct access to the struct bus_type dev_root pointer is going away soon
so replace that with a call to bus_get_dev_root() instead, which is what
it is there for.

Cc: Mark Gross <markgross@kernel.org>
Cc: platform-driver-x86@vger.kernel.org
Acked-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Srinivas Pandruvada <srinivas.pandruvada@linux.intel.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230313182918.1312597-5-gregkh@linuxfoundation.orgSigned-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

Direct access to the struct bus_type dev_root pointer is going away soon
so replace that with a call to bus_get_dev_root() instead, which is what
it is there for.

Cc: Mark Gross <markgross@kernel.org>
Cc: platform-driver-x86@vger.kernel.org
Acked-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230313182918.1312597-4-gregkh@linuxfoundation.orgSigned-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

Direct access to the struct bus_type dev_root pointer is going away soon
so replace that with a call to bus_get_dev_root() instead, which is what
it is there for.

Cc: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Cc: Srinivas Pandruvada <srinivas.pandruvada@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
Cc: linux-pm@vger.kernel.org
Acked-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230313182918.1312597-3-gregkh@linuxfoundation.orgSigned-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

The debug files under sched/domains can take a long time to regenerate,
especially when updates are done one at a time. Move these files under
the sched verbose debug flag. Allow changes to verbose to trigger
generation of the files. This lets a user batch the updates but still
have the information available.  The detailed topology printk messages
are also under verbose.

Discussion that lead to this approach can be found in the link below.

Simplified code to maintain use of debugfs bool routines suggested by
Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>.
Signed-off-by: Phil Auld <pauld@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Valentin Schneider <vschneid@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Vishal Chourasia <vishalc@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Valentin Schneider <vschneid@redhat.com>
Cc: Vishal Chourasia <vishalc@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/Y01UWQL2y2r69sBX@li-05afa54c-330e-11b2-a85c-e3f3aa0db1e9.ibm.com/
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230303183754.3076321-1-pauld@redhat.comSigned-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

The functions device_create() and device_create_with_groups() do not
modify the struct class passed into it, so enforce this by changing the
function parameters to be struct const class.

Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230313181843.1207845-12-gregkh@linuxfoundation.orgSigned-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

The pointer to a struct class in a struct device should never be used to
change anything in that class.  So mark it as constant to enforce this
requirement.

This requires a few minor changes to some internal driver core functions
to enforce the const * being used here now.

Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230313181843.1207845-11-gregkh@linuxfoundation.orgSigned-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

Do not wait until long after the struct class has been created to set
the shutdown_pre pointer for the tpm_class, assign it right away.

This is the only in-kernel offender that tries to modify the
device->class pointer contents after it has been assigned to a device,
so fix that up by doing the function pointer assignment before it is
matched with the device.  Because of this, the patch should go through
the driver core tree to allow later changes to struct device to be
possible.

Cc: Peter Huewe <peterhuewe@gmx.de>
Cc: Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko@kernel.org>
Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca>
Cc: linux-integrity@vger.kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230313181843.1207845-10-gregkh@linuxfoundation.orgSigned-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

device_destroy() does not modify the struct class passed into it, so
mark it as const to enforce this rule.

Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230313181843.1207845-9-gregkh@linuxfoundation.orgSigned-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

The class_create_file*() and class_remove_file*() functions do not
modify the struct class at all, so mark them as const * to enforce that.

Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230313181843.1207845-8-gregkh@linuxfoundation.orgSigned-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

The class_find_device*() functions do not modify the struct class or the
struct device passed into it, so mark them as const * to enforce that.

Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230313181843.1207845-7-gregkh@linuxfoundation.orgSigned-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

class_for_each_device() does not modify the struct class or the struct
device passed into it, so mark them as const * to enforce that.

Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230313181843.1207845-6-gregkh@linuxfoundation.orgSigned-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

class_dev_iter_init() does not modify the struct class or the struct
device passed into it, so mark them as const * to enforce that.

Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230313181843.1207845-5-gregkh@linuxfoundation.orgSigned-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

The module pointer in class_create() never actually did anything, and it
shouldn't have been requred to be set as a parameter even if it did
something.  So just remove it and fix up all callers of the function in
the kernel tree at the same time.

Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Benjamin Tissoires <benjamin.tissoires@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230313181843.1207845-4-gregkh@linuxfoundation.orgSigned-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

The module owner field for a struct class was never actually used, so
remove it as it is not doing anything at all.

Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230313181843.1207845-3-gregkh@linuxfoundation.orgSigned-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

There is no need to manually set the owner of a struct class, as the
registering function does it automatically, so remove all of the
explicit settings from various drivers that did so as it is unneeded.

This allows us to remove this pointer entirely from this structure going
forward.

Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230313181843.1207845-2-gregkh@linuxfoundation.orgSigned-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

There's no need to manually have to set the module owner of a class, the
compiler should do it automatically for you, so add a module * to the
__class_register() function and allow it to set the module owner
automatically.

This will let us move the module pointer out of struct class eventually,
as it should not be embedded in there if we wish for it to be a
read-only structure eventually.

And, funny story, this module pointer isn't even being used for
anything, so while we will keep it around for now, it's not like it even
matters.

Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230313181843.1207845-1-gregkh@linuxfoundation.orgSigned-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

Without an explicit level the stacktraces are printed at a default
level.
If this level does not match the one from the logging level it may
happen that the stacktrace is shown without the message or vice versa.

Both these cases are confusing, so make sure the user always sees both,
the message and the stacktrace.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh <linux@weissschuh.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230311-kobject-warning-v1-2-1ebba4f71fb5@weissschuh.netSigned-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

All log messages start with the prefix "kobject: ".
Deduplicate this by using the pr_fmt() facility.

This makes the very long log strings shorter.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh <linux@weissschuh.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230311-kobject-warning-v1-1-1ebba4f71fb5@weissschuh.netSigned-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

All the same as it's done in the commit e32c80bbd2f9 ("devres:
Pass unique name of the resource to devm_add_action()") applies
to the devm_add_action_or_reset(), which this change makes real.
This helps with debug resource management.
Reported-and-tested-by: Mirsad Goran Todorovac <mirsad.todorovac@alu.unizg.hr>
Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230313113100.59643-1-andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.comSigned-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

Pass the unique name of the resource to devm_add_action(),
so it will be easier to debug managed resources.
Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230224200745.17324-1-andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.comSigned-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

Some of the functions do not provide Return: section on absence of which
kernel-doc complains. Besides that several functions return the fwnode
handle with incremented reference count. Add a respective note to make sure
that the caller decrements it when it's not needed anymore.

While at it, unify the style of the Return: sections.
Reported-by: Daniel Kaehn <kaehndan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Sakari Ailus <sakari.ailus@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230217133344.79278-1-andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.comSigned-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

If the file is written to and sync_state() hasn't been called for the
device yet, then call sync_state() for the device independent of the
state of its consumers.

This is useful for supplier devices that have one or more consumers that
don't have a driver but the consumers are in a state that don't use the
resources supplied by the supplier device.

This gives finer grained control than using the
fw_devlink.sync_state=timeout kernel commandline parameter.
Signed-off-by: Saravana Kannan <saravanak@google.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230304005355.746421-3-saravanak@google.comSigned-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

When all devices that could probe have finished probing (based on
deferred_probe_timeout configuration or late_initcall() when
!CONFIG_MODULES), this parameter controls what to do with devices that
haven't yet received their sync_state() calls.

fw_devlink.sync_state=strict is the default and the driver core will
continue waiting on all consumers of a device to probe successfully
before sync_state() is called for the device. This is the default
behavior since calling sync_state() on a device when all its consumers
haven't probed could make some systems unusable/unstable. When this
option is selected, we also print the list of devices that haven't had
sync_state() called on them by the time all devices the could probe have
finished probing.

fw_devlink.sync_state=timeout will cause the driver core to give up
waiting on consumers and call sync_state() on any devices that haven't
yet received their sync_state() calls. This option is provided for
systems that won't become unusable/unstable as they might be able to
save power (depends on state of hardware before kernel starts) if all
devices get their sync_state().
Signed-off-by: Saravana Kannan <saravanak@google.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230304005355.746421-2-saravanak@google.comSigned-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

In removing the CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED and CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2
config options, I messed up in the __class_register() function and got
the logic incorrect.  Fix this all up by just removing the special case
of a block device class logic in this function, as that is what is
intended.

In testing, this solves the boot problem on my systems, hopefully on
others as well.

Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@kernel.org>
Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Fixes: 721da5ce ("driver core: remove CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED and CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2")
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230307075102.3537-1-gregkh@linuxfoundation.orgSigned-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED was added in commit 88a22c98
("CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED") in 2006 to allow systems with older versions
of some tools (i.e. Fedora 3's version of udev) to boot properly.  Four
years later, in 2010, the option was attempted to be removed as most of
userspace should have been fixed up properly by then, but some kernel
developers clung to those old systems and refused to update, so we added
CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 in commit e52eec13 ("SYSFS: Allow boot
time switching between deprecated and modern sysfs layout") to allow
them to continue to boot properly, and we allowed a boot time parameter
to be used to switch back to the old format if needed.

Over time, the logic that was covered under these config options was
slowly removed from individual driver subsystems successfully, removed,
and the only thing that is now left in the kernel are some changes in
the block layer's representation in sysfs where real directories are
used instead of symlinks like normal.

Because the original changes were done to userspace tools in 2006, and
all distros that use those tools are long end-of-life, and older
non-udev-based systems do not care about the block layer's sysfs
representation, it is time to finally remove this old logic and the
config entries from the kernel.

Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@kernel.org>
Cc: linux-block@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Acked-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230223073326.2073220-1-gregkh@linuxfoundation.orgSigned-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>