Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752213AbZIHSZm (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Sep 2009 14:25:42 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752095AbZIHSZl (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Sep 2009 14:25:41 -0400 Received: from avexch1.qlogic.com ([198.70.193.115]:36921 "EHLO avexch1.qlogic.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752070AbZIHSZk (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Sep 2009 14:25:40 -0400 Date: Tue, 8 Sep 2009 11:25:41 -0700 From: Andrew Vasquez To: Randy Dunlap Cc: Stephen Rothwell , "linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-next@vger.kernel.org" , LKML , Giridhar Malavali Subject: Re: linux-next: Tree for September 7 (scsi/qla2x) Message-ID: <20090908182541.GB44157@plap4-2.local> References: <20090907210206.7830ba68.sfr@canb.auug.org.au> <20090907102747.ac6b98ff.randy.dunlap@oracle.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20090907102747.ac6b98ff.randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Organization: QLogic Corporation User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) X-OriginalArrivalTime: 08 Sep 2009 18:25:14.0414 (UTC) FILETIME=[B5654CE0:01CA30B1] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2132 Lines: 59 On Mon, 07 Sep 2009, Randy Dunlap wrote: > On Mon, 7 Sep 2009 21:02:06 +1000 Stephen Rothwell wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > Changes since 20090904: > > > when CONFIG_MODULES=n: > > drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_os.c:2685: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type > > in > kobject_uevent_env(&(&vha->hw->pdev->driver->driver)->owner->mkobj.kobj, > KOBJ_CHANGE, envp); Argg... Some history here... During several unwelcome hardware/firmware events (ISP system error, mailbox command timeouts, etc), the qla2xxx driver can store a 'firmware-dump' (essentially a snapshot of the current state of the ISP firmware). This snapshot is then captured via a user-space tool querying a driver sysfs-node hanging off of a scsi_host's device tree: /sys/class/scsi_host/host4/device/fw_dump The dump is then used by our firmware engineering group to help triage the issue. This recent change: commit 10a71b40153a19279428053ad9743e15ef414148 Author: Andrew Vasquez Date: Tue Aug 25 11:36:15 2009 -0700 [SCSI] qla2xxx: Add firmware-dump kobject uevent notification. Signed-off-by: Andrew Vasquez Signed-off-by: Giridhar Malavali Signed-off-by: James Bottomley attempted to help 'automate' the task of retrieval by signaling udev to automatically run the 'retrieval' script anytime the driver captured the firmware-dump. Here's a snippet of the udev rule: # qla2xxx driver KERNEL=="qla2xxx", SUBSYSTEM=="module", ACTION=="change", RUN+="qla2xxx_udev.sh" Any suggestions here on an alternate driver-specific kobject an LLD can/should use for something like this? I looked previously at other callers of kobject_uevent_env(), but didn't really see a simlar usage-pattern of a driver wanting to signal events to userspace... Thanks, AV -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/