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authorDave Kleikamp <shaggy@linux.vnet.ibm.com>2009-02-02 13:40:55 -0600
committerDave Kleikamp <shaggy@linux.vnet.ibm.com>2009-02-02 13:40:55 -0600
commit8db0c5d5ef3ab99fe9e5151872b75f45c4282e3c (patch)
treeda9759151e00221c58cdd9f4de893c0b08753670 /fs/sysfs
parent1ad53a98c927a9b5b1b57288ac0edec562fbcf8d (diff)
parent45c82b5a770be66845687a7d027c8b52946d59af (diff)
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Merge branch 'master' of /home/shaggy/git/linus-clean/
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/sysfs')
-rw-r--r--fs/sysfs/Kconfig23
-rw-r--r--fs/sysfs/bin.c6
2 files changed, 29 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/fs/sysfs/Kconfig b/fs/sysfs/Kconfig
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..f4b67588b9d6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/fs/sysfs/Kconfig
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+config SYSFS
+ bool "sysfs file system support" if EMBEDDED
+ default y
+ help
+ The sysfs filesystem is a virtual filesystem that the kernel uses to
+ export internal kernel objects, their attributes, and their
+ relationships to one another.
+
+ Users can use sysfs to ascertain useful information about the running
+ kernel, such as the devices the kernel has discovered on each bus and
+ which driver each is bound to. sysfs can also be used to tune devices
+ and other kernel subsystems.
+
+ Some system agents rely on the information in sysfs to operate.
+ /sbin/hotplug uses device and object attributes in sysfs to assist in
+ delegating policy decisions, like persistently naming devices.
+
+ sysfs is currently used by the block subsystem to mount the root
+ partition. If sysfs is disabled you must specify the boot device on
+ the kernel boot command line via its major and minor numbers. For
+ example, "root=03:01" for /dev/hda1.
+
+ Designers of embedded systems may wish to say N here to conserve space.
diff --git a/fs/sysfs/bin.c b/fs/sysfs/bin.c
index 66f6e58a7e4b..f2c478c3424e 100644
--- a/fs/sysfs/bin.c
+++ b/fs/sysfs/bin.c
@@ -63,6 +63,9 @@ read(struct file *file, char __user *userbuf, size_t bytes, loff_t *off)
int count = min_t(size_t, bytes, PAGE_SIZE);
char *temp;
+ if (!bytes)
+ return 0;
+
if (size) {
if (offs > size)
return 0;
@@ -131,6 +134,9 @@ static ssize_t write(struct file *file, const char __user *userbuf,
int count = min_t(size_t, bytes, PAGE_SIZE);
char *temp;
+ if (!bytes)
+ return 0;
+
if (size) {
if (offs > size)
return 0;
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