driver core: Suppress sysfs warnings for device_rename().
driver core: Suppress sysfs warnings for device_rename().
Renaming network devices to an already existing name is not
something we want sysfs to print a scary warning for, since the
callers can deal with this correctly. So let's introduce
sysfs_create_link_nowarn() which gets rid of the common warning.
Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
diff --git a/fs/sysfs/symlink.c b/fs/sysfs/symlink.c
index 817f596..a3ba217 100644
--- a/fs/sysfs/symlink.c
+++ b/fs/sysfs/symlink.c
@@ -19,13 +19,8 @@
#include "sysfs.h"
-/**
- * sysfs_create_link - create symlink between two objects.
- * @kobj: object whose directory we're creating the link in.
- * @target: object we're pointing to.
- * @name: name of the symlink.
- */
-int sysfs_create_link(struct kobject * kobj, struct kobject * target, const char * name)
+static int sysfs_do_create_link(struct kobject *kobj, struct kobject *target,
+ const char *name, int warn)
{
struct sysfs_dirent *parent_sd = NULL;
struct sysfs_dirent *target_sd = NULL;
@@ -65,7 +60,10 @@
target_sd = NULL; /* reference is now owned by the symlink */
sysfs_addrm_start(&acxt, parent_sd);
- error = sysfs_add_one(&acxt, sd);
+ if (warn)
+ error = sysfs_add_one(&acxt, sd);
+ else
+ error = __sysfs_add_one(&acxt, sd);
sysfs_addrm_finish(&acxt);
if (error)
@@ -80,6 +78,33 @@
}
/**
+ * sysfs_create_link - create symlink between two objects.
+ * @kobj: object whose directory we're creating the link in.
+ * @target: object we're pointing to.
+ * @name: name of the symlink.
+ */
+int sysfs_create_link(struct kobject *kobj, struct kobject *target,
+ const char *name)
+{
+ return sysfs_do_create_link(kobj, target, name, 1);
+}
+
+/**
+ * sysfs_create_link_nowarn - create symlink between two objects.
+ * @kobj: object whose directory we're creating the link in.
+ * @target: object we're pointing to.
+ * @name: name of the symlink.
+ *
+ * This function does the same as sysf_create_link(), but it
+ * doesn't warn if the link already exists.
+ */
+int sysfs_create_link_nowarn(struct kobject *kobj, struct kobject *target,
+ const char *name)
+{
+ return sysfs_do_create_link(kobj, target, name, 0);
+}
+
+/**
* sysfs_remove_link - remove symlink in object's directory.
* @kobj: object we're acting for.
* @name: name of the symlink to remove.