[PATCH] driver core: replace "hotplug" by "uevent"
Leave the overloaded "hotplug" word to susbsystems which are handling
real devices. The driver core does not "plug" anything, it just exports
the state to userspace and generates events.
Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/core/sysfs.c b/drivers/infiniband/core/sysfs.c
index 08648b1a..1f1743c 100644
--- a/drivers/infiniband/core/sysfs.c
+++ b/drivers/infiniband/core/sysfs.c
@@ -434,24 +434,24 @@
kfree(dev);
}
-static int ib_device_hotplug(struct class_device *cdev, char **envp,
- int num_envp, char *buf, int size)
+static int ib_device_uevent(struct class_device *cdev, char **envp,
+ int num_envp, char *buf, int size)
{
struct ib_device *dev = container_of(cdev, struct ib_device, class_dev);
int i = 0, len = 0;
- if (add_hotplug_env_var(envp, num_envp, &i, buf, size, &len,
- "NAME=%s", dev->name))
+ if (add_uevent_var(envp, num_envp, &i, buf, size, &len,
+ "NAME=%s", dev->name))
return -ENOMEM;
/*
- * It might be nice to pass the node GUID to hotplug, but
+ * It might be nice to pass the node GUID with the event, but
* right now the only way to get it is to query the device
* provider, and this can crash during device removal because
* we are will be running after driver removal has started.
* We could add a node_guid field to struct ib_device, or we
- * could just let the hotplug script read the node GUID from
- * sysfs when devices are added.
+ * could just let userspace read the node GUID from sysfs when
+ * devices are added.
*/
envp[i] = NULL;
@@ -653,7 +653,7 @@
static struct class ib_class = {
.name = "infiniband",
.release = ib_device_release,
- .hotplug = ib_device_hotplug,
+ .uevent = ib_device_uevent,
};
int ib_device_register_sysfs(struct ib_device *device)