Needed for future firmware subsystem cleanups.
In the end, the firmware_register/unregister functions will be deleted
entirely, but we need this symbol so that subsystems can migrate over.
Cc: Kay Sievers <[email protected]>
Cc: Matt Domsch <[email protected]>
Cc: Matt Tolentino <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
---
drivers/base/firmware.c | 3 ++-
include/linux/kobject.h | 2 ++
2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/base/firmware.c b/drivers/base/firmware.c
index d1c2ef4..d225059 100644
--- a/drivers/base/firmware.c
+++ b/drivers/base/firmware.c
@@ -16,7 +16,8 @@
#include "base.h"
-static struct kset *firmware_kset;
+struct kset *firmware_kset;
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(firmware_kset);
int firmware_register(struct kset *s)
{
diff --git a/include/linux/kobject.h b/include/linux/kobject.h
index cf9768a..3aa8108 100644
--- a/include/linux/kobject.h
+++ b/include/linux/kobject.h
@@ -204,6 +204,8 @@ extern struct kset *kernel_kset;
extern struct kset *hypervisor_kset;
/* The global /sys/power/ kset for people to chain off of */
extern struct kset *power_kset;
+/* The global /sys/firmware/ kset for people to chain off of */
+extern struct kset *firmware_kset;
extern int __must_check subsystem_register(struct kset *);
extern void subsystem_unregister(struct kset *);
--
1.5.3.4
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