md: reduce dependence on sysfs.
We will want md devices to live as dm targets where sysfs is not
visible. So allow md to not connect to sysfs.
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
diff --git a/drivers/md/md.h b/drivers/md/md.h
index 10597bf..1e64059 100644
--- a/drivers/md/md.h
+++ b/drivers/md/md.h
@@ -382,6 +382,18 @@
};
extern struct attribute_group md_bitmap_group;
+static inline struct sysfs_dirent *sysfs_get_dirent_safe(struct sysfs_dirent *sd, char *name)
+{
+ if (sd)
+ return sysfs_get_dirent(sd, NULL, name);
+ return sd;
+}
+static inline void sysfs_notify_dirent_safe(struct sysfs_dirent *sd)
+{
+ if (sd)
+ sysfs_notify_dirent(sd);
+}
+
static inline char * mdname (mddev_t * mddev)
{
return mddev->gendisk ? mddev->gendisk->disk_name : "mdX";