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    of: Make device nodes kobjects so they show up in sysfs · 75b57ecf
    Grant Likely authored
    Device tree nodes are already treated as objects, and we already want to
    expose them to userspace which is done using the /proc filesystem today.
    Right now the kernel has to do a lot of work to keep the /proc view in
    sync with the in-kernel representation. If device_nodes are switched to
    be kobjects then the device tree code can be a whole lot simpler. It
    also turns out that switching to using /sysfs from /proc results in
    smaller code and data size, and the userspace ABI won't change if
    /proc/device-tree symlinks to /sys/firmware/devicetree/base.
    
    v7: Add missing sysfs_bin_attr_init()
    v6: Add __of_add_property() early init fixes from Pantelis
    v5: Rename firmware/ofw to firmware/devicetree
        Fix updating property values in sysfs
    v4: Fixed build error on Powerpc
        Fixed handling of dynamic nodes on powerpc
    v3: Fixed handling of duplicate attribute and child node names
    v2: switch to using sysfs bin_attributes which solve the problem of
        reporting incorrect property size.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarGrant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
    Tested-by: default avatarSascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de>
    Cc: Rob Herring <rob.herring@calxeda.com>
    Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
    Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
    Cc: Nathan Fontenot <nfont@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
    Cc: Pantelis Antoniou <panto@antoniou-consulting.com>
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