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author | Jean Tourrilhes <jt@hpl.hp.com> | 2007-03-07 21:49:30 +0300 |
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committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> | 2007-04-27 21:57:29 +0400 |
commit | ca2f37dbc5324c7278577731033a358f1f86050a (patch) | |
tree | 5085e9826220e047c1f53070355c4f194988241f /lib/kobject.c | |
parent | 1b0b3b9980e482ab7c603430462538334f69f14a (diff) | |
download | linux-ca2f37dbc5324c7278577731033a358f1f86050a.tar.xz |
Driver core: notify userspace of network device renames
Provide rename event for when we rename network devices.
Signed-off-by: Jean Tourrilhes <jt@hpl.hp.com>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'lib/kobject.c')
-rw-r--r-- | lib/kobject.c | 30 |
1 files changed, 30 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/lib/kobject.c b/lib/kobject.c index bbbfab4145e6..db1d23707eb1 100644 --- a/lib/kobject.c +++ b/lib/kobject.c @@ -311,13 +311,43 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(kobject_set_name); int kobject_rename(struct kobject * kobj, const char *new_name) { int error = 0; + const char *devpath = NULL; + char *devpath_string = NULL; + char *envp[2]; kobj = kobject_get(kobj); if (!kobj) return -EINVAL; if (!kobj->parent) return -EINVAL; + + devpath = kobject_get_path(kobj, GFP_KERNEL); + if (!devpath) { + error = -ENOMEM; + goto out; + } + devpath_string = kmalloc(strlen(devpath) + 15, GFP_KERNEL); + if (!devpath_string) { + error = -ENOMEM; + goto out; + } + sprintf(devpath_string, "DEVPATH_OLD=%s", devpath); + envp[0] = devpath_string; + envp[1] = NULL; + /* Note : if we want to send the new name alone, not the full path, + * we could probably use kobject_name(kobj); */ + error = sysfs_rename_dir(kobj, kobj->parent->dentry, new_name); + + /* This function is mostly/only used for network interface. + * Some hotplug package track interfaces by their name and + * therefore want to know when the name is changed by the user. */ + if (!error) + kobject_uevent_env(kobj, KOBJ_MOVE, envp); + +out: + kfree(devpath_string); + kfree(devpath); kobject_put(kobj); return error; |