diff --git a/drivers/edac/edac_stub.c b/drivers/edac/edac_stub.c
index 20b428a..aab9707 100644
--- a/drivers/edac/edac_stub.c
+++ b/drivers/edac/edac_stub.c
@@ -3,10 +3,13 @@
  *
  * Author: Dave Jiang <djiang@mvista.com>
  *
- * 2007 (c) MontaVista Software, Inc. This file is licensed under
- * the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2. This program
- * is licensed "as is" without any warranty of any kind, whether express
- * or implied.
+ * 2007 (c) MontaVista Software, Inc.
+ * 2010 (c) Advanced Micro Devices Inc.
+ *	    Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@amd.com>
+ *
+ * This file is licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public
+ * License version 2. This program is licensed "as is" without any
+ * warranty of any kind, whether express or implied.
  *
  */
 #include <linux/module.h>
@@ -23,6 +26,8 @@
 int edac_err_assert = 0;
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(edac_err_assert);
 
+static atomic_t edac_class_valid = ATOMIC_INIT(0);
+
 /*
  * called to determine if there is an EDAC driver interested in
  * knowing an event (such as NMI) occurred
@@ -44,3 +49,41 @@
 	edac_err_assert++;
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(edac_atomic_assert_error);
+
+/*
+ * sysfs object: /sys/devices/system/edac
+ *	need to export to other files
+ */
+struct sysdev_class edac_class = {
+	.name = "edac",
+};
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(edac_class);
+
+/* return pointer to the 'edac' node in sysfs */
+struct sysdev_class *edac_get_sysfs_class(void)
+{
+	int err = 0;
+
+	if (atomic_read(&edac_class_valid))
+		goto out;
+
+	/* create the /sys/devices/system/edac directory */
+	err = sysdev_class_register(&edac_class);
+	if (err) {
+		printk(KERN_ERR "Error registering toplevel EDAC sysfs dir\n");
+		return NULL;
+	}
+
+out:
+	atomic_inc(&edac_class_valid);
+	return &edac_class;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(edac_get_sysfs_class);
+
+void edac_put_sysfs_class(void)
+{
+	/* last user unregisters it */
+	if (atomic_dec_and_test(&edac_class_valid))
+		sysdev_class_unregister(&edac_class);
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(edac_put_sysfs_class);