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This defines struct driver_attribute so device drivers themselves can export attributes 
via driverfs.

The macro DRIVER_ATTR is defined for declaring the attributes.

driver_{create,remove}_file are implemented for creating and removing files.

 

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These behave identically to device attribute files, but with different types. 

We get struct bus_attribute, and a macro, BUS_ATTR for declaring attributes. It takes the same parameters
as DEVICE_ATTR, though the callbacks for bus attributes take a struct bus_type as the first parameter.

This cleans up the drivers/base/ files, so they deal mainly with registration.

It also provides a good place to put the glue needed for bus and driver files in driverfs. 

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Now users can't create files within the fs.
Thanks to Pat Mochel <mochel@osdl.org> for the ideas on how to do this.

Earlier Intel CPUs didn't have the cpuid namestring feature,
so we have to look them up in tables..

Fix by Patrick Mochel.

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Cset exclude: torvalds@home.transmeta.com|ChangeSet|20020801011106|51286

we are starting to split gendisks - now we can do that.  Done for
ide, sd, pd, hd and mfm

It's in transit - what we are aiming at is getting ->nr_real to 1 for
all gendisks.  Once that will be done we will be able to simplify a lot
stuff and remove ad-hackery.  First thing that will happen after that
is death of ->nr_real, obviouslye.  Then we
	(a) will merge ->major and ->first_minor into ->dev
	(b) strip one level of indirection from  ->driverfs_dev_arr, ->de_arr
and ->flags - they turn into single-element arrays and we will simply pull
the (only) element into struct gendisk.  Kills a lot of ad-hackery in splitup
code (fewer things to allocate).
	(c) replace ->major_name with ->disk_name; kills most of the crap in
disk_name(9) - it only has to care about adding partition number to the name.

now that gendisks don't have shared stuff (we used to set blk_size[]
from ->sizes) we can start splitting them into per-disk ones.

Step 1:
  we introduce a new field - ->first_minor (to be merged with ->major
  into dev_t of entire disk once all gendisks are split).  All arrays
  are assumed to start at that minor (i.e.  gd->part[minor] got replaced
  with gd->part[minor - gd->first_minor], etc.).  get_gendisk() is
  taught to pick the right gendisk if there are several with the same
  major.

kills use of blk_size[] for partitioned devices, removes ->sizes from
struct gendisk.

and some places in linux kernel must change.
See the attached patch.

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This patch corrects a comment on the 8139cp ethernet driver.

This removes the TLS clear operation.  I've left the flags mask and the
writable flag just so that we have the option to introduce extensions
without breaking the ABI.