The Storage subsystem, like the Audio and HID subsystems, exposes Unix
device files (for example, in the /dev directory). To ensure consistency
across the repository, we should make the Storage subsystem to reside in
the Kernel/Devices directory like the two other mentioned subsystems.
To do this we also need to get rid of LockRefPtrs in the USB code as
well.
Most of the SysFS nodes are statically generated during boot and are not
mutated afterwards.
The same goes for general device code - once we generate the appropriate
SysFS nodes, we almost never mutate the node pointers afterwards, making
locking unnecessary.
Until now, our kernel has reimplemented a number of AK classes to
provide automatic internal locking:
- RefPtr
- NonnullRefPtr
- WeakPtr
- Weakable
This patch renames the Kernel classes so that they can coexist with
the original AK classes:
- RefPtr => LockRefPtr
- NonnullRefPtr => NonnullLockRefPtr
- WeakPtr => LockWeakPtr
- Weakable => LockWeakable
The goal here is to eventually get rid of the Lock* classes in favor of
using external locking.
This change in fact does the following:
1. Use support for symlinks between /sys/dev/block/ storage device
identifier nodes and devices in /sys/devices/storage/{LUN}.
2. Add basic nodes in a /sys/devices/storage/{LUN} directory, to let
userspace to know about the device and its details.