Re: kobject_init() sets kobj->subsys wrong?

Matt Domsch (Matt_Domsch@Dell.com)
Sat, 4 Jan 2003 14:11:52 -0600 (CST)


> Your recent patch creating find_bus("scsi") always returns NULL. I see
> that's because bus_subsys.list is empty.

In kobject_add(), with kobj->subsys = NULL, this kobject (embedded inside
struct subsystem embedded inside struct bus_type) never gets added to
either it's parent's list, nor to the (NULL) subsystem's list. It appears
that the object can be on either a parent's list or a subsystem's list,
but not both, by virtue of there being only one struct list_head entry in
struct kobject.

You're far more versed in how this should work than I. Some ideas...

1) in bus_register(), don't set bus->subsys.parent = &bus_subsys, instead
set bus->subsys.kobj.subsys = &bus_subsys. I did this, and now find_bus()
works as expected, but now the busses created don't have parents unless
they're specified prior to calling bus_register(), so this doesn't seem
quite right.

===== linux-2.5-edd-work/drivers/base/bus.c 1.26 vs edited =====
--- 1.26/drivers/base/bus.c Sun Dec 1 23:22:04 2002
+++ edited/linux-2.5-edd-work/drivers/base/bus.c Sat Jan 4 13:58:31 2003
@@ -495,7 +520,7 @@

down(&bus_sem);
strncpy(bus->subsys.kobj.name,bus->name,KOBJ_NAME_LEN);
- bus->subsys.parent = &bus_subsys;
+ bus->subsys.kobj.subsys = &bus_subsys;
subsystem_register(&bus->subsys);

snprintf(bus->devsubsys.kobj.name,KOBJ_NAME_LEN,"devices");

2) set both bus->subsys.parent and bus->subsys.kobj.subsys, but then fix
the test in kobject_add() to put the object on the subsystem's list if
possible, then fall back to the parent list otherwise. Again, doesn't
seem quite right.

3) Add another struct list_head to kobject to let it reside on both a
parent list and a subsystem list if either exist.

There are probably other options. Please advise.

Thanks,
Matt

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Matt Domsch
Sr. Software Engineer, Lead Engineer, Architect
Dell Linux Solutions www.dell.com/linux
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