libnvdimm, nvdimm: dimm driver and base libnvdimm device-driver infrastructure
authorDan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Sun, 31 May 2015 18:41:48 +0000 (14:41 -0400)
committerDan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Thu, 25 Jun 2015 01:24:10 +0000 (21:24 -0400)
commit4d88a97aa9e8cfa6460aab119c5da60ad2267423
treef96989f3240720c647a48dd493d895b58b052b10
parent62232e45f4a265abb43f0acf16e58f5d0b6e1ec9
libnvdimm, nvdimm: dimm driver and base libnvdimm device-driver infrastructure

* Implement the device-model infrastructure for loading modules and
  attaching drivers to nvdimm devices.  This is a simple association of a
  nd-device-type number with a driver that has a bitmask of supported
  device types.  To facilitate userspace bind/unbind operations 'modalias'
  and 'devtype', that also appear in the uevent, are added as generic
  sysfs attributes for all nvdimm devices.  The reason for the device-type
  number is to support sub-types within a given parent devtype, be it a
  vendor-specific sub-type or otherwise.

* The first consumer of this infrastructure is the driver
  for dimm devices.  It simply uses control messages to retrieve and
  store the configuration-data image (label set) from each dimm.

Note: nd_device_register() arranges for asynchronous registration of
      nvdimm bus devices by default.

Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Tested-by: Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
drivers/acpi/nfit.c
drivers/nvdimm/Makefile
drivers/nvdimm/bus.c
drivers/nvdimm/core.c
drivers/nvdimm/dimm.c [new file with mode: 0644]
drivers/nvdimm/dimm_devs.c
drivers/nvdimm/nd-core.h
drivers/nvdimm/nd.h [new file with mode: 0644]
include/linux/libnvdimm.h
include/linux/nd.h [new file with mode: 0644]
include/uapi/linux/ndctl.h