[PATCH][2.6] fix bridge sysfs improperly initialised knobject

From: Zwane Mwaikambo
Date: Wed Jun 16 2004 - 18:48:46 EST


The bridge sysfs interface introduced around 2.6.7-rc1 created a bad
entry in /sys because it didn't initialise the name member of the kobject.

zwane@montezuma /sys {0:0} ls -l
total 0
?--------- ? ? ? ? ?
drwxr-xr-x 17 root root 0 Jun 15 15:47 block
drwxr-xr-x 7 root root 0 Jun 15 15:47 bus
drwxr-xr-x 16 root root 0 Jun 15 15:47 class
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 0 Jun 15 15:47 devices
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 0 Jun 15 15:47 firmware
drwxr-xr-x 8 root root 0 Jun 15 19:55 module

Index: linux-2.6.7-rc3-mm2/net/bridge/br_sysfs_br.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/cvsroot/linux-2.6.7-rc3-mm2/net/bridge/br_sysfs_br.c,v
retrieving revision 1.1.1.1
diff -u -p -B -r1.1.1.1 br_sysfs_br.c
--- linux-2.6.7-rc3-mm2/net/bridge/br_sysfs_br.c 14 Jun 2004 12:49:12 -0000 1.1.1.1
+++ linux-2.6.7-rc3-mm2/net/bridge/br_sysfs_br.c 16 Jun 2004 16:45:20 -0000
@@ -305,9 +305,7 @@ static struct bin_attribute bridge_forwa
* This is a dummy kset so bridge objects don't cause
* hotplug events
*/
-struct subsystem bridge_subsys = {
- .kset = { .hotplug_ops = NULL },
-};
+decl_subsys_name(bridge, net_bridge, NULL, NULL);

void br_sysfs_init(void)
{
-
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