From 235586939d7fe4833ada9e988f92af543ee6851f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Luis R. Rodriguez" Date: Fri, 8 Sep 2017 16:17:00 -0700 Subject: kmod: split out umh code into its own file Patch series "kmod: few code cleanups to split out umh code" The usermode helper has a provenance from the old usb code which first required a usermode helper. Eventually this was shoved into kmod.c and the kernel's modprobe calls was converted over eventually to share the same code. Over time the list of usermode helpers in the kernel has grown -- so kmod is just but one user of the API. This series is a simple logical cleanup which acknowledges the code evolution of the usermode helper and shoves the UMH API into its own dedicated file. This way users of the API can later just include umh.h instead of kmod.h. Note despite the diff state the first patch really is just a code shove, no functional changes are done there. I did use git format-patch -M to generate the patch, but in the end the split was not enough for git to consider it a rename hence the large diffstat. I've put this through 0-day and it gives me their machine compilation blessings with all tests as OK. This patch (of 4): There's a slew of usermode helper users and kmod is just one of them. Split out the usermode helper code into its own file to keep the logic and focus split up. This change provides no functional changes. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170810180618.22457-2-mcgrof@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez Cc: Kees Cook Cc: Dmitry Torokhov Cc: Jessica Yu Cc: Rusty Russell Cc: Michal Marek Cc: Petr Mladek Cc: Miroslav Benes Cc: Josh Poimboeuf Cc: Guenter Roeck Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" Cc: Matt Redfearn Cc: Dan Carpenter Cc: Colin Ian King Cc: Daniel Mentz Cc: David Binderman Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- MAINTAINERS | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) (limited to 'MAINTAINERS') diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS index 9fe33e689c88..6a57fac2bd07 100644 --- a/MAINTAINERS +++ b/MAINTAINERS @@ -7457,6 +7457,12 @@ S: Maintained F: tools/testing/selftests/ F: Documentation/dev-tools/kselftest* +KERNEL USERMODE HELPER +M: "Luis R. Rodriguez" +L: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org +S: Maintained +F: kernel/umh.c + KERNEL VIRTUAL MACHINE (KVM) M: Paolo Bonzini M: Radim Krčmář -- cgit v1.2.3