Driver core: accept all valid action-strings in uevent-trigger
This allows the uevent file to handle any type of uevent action to be
triggered by userspace instead of just the "add" uevent.
Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
diff --git a/drivers/base/core.c b/drivers/base/core.c
index 0455aa7..91a0367 100644
--- a/drivers/base/core.c
+++ b/drivers/base/core.c
@@ -24,6 +24,8 @@
#include "base.h"
#include "power/power.h"
+extern const char *kobject_actions[];
+
int (*platform_notify)(struct device * dev) = NULL;
int (*platform_notify_remove)(struct device * dev) = NULL;
@@ -303,10 +305,25 @@
static ssize_t store_uevent(struct device *dev, struct device_attribute *attr,
const char *buf, size_t count)
{
- if (memcmp(buf, "add", 3) != 0)
- dev_err(dev, "uevent: unsupported action-string; this will "
- "be ignored in a future kernel version");
+ size_t len = count;
+ enum kobject_action action;
+
+ if (len && buf[len-1] == '\n')
+ len--;
+
+ for (action = 0; action < KOBJ_MAX; action++) {
+ if (strncmp(kobject_actions[action], buf, len) != 0)
+ continue;
+ if (kobject_actions[action][len] != '\0')
+ continue;
+ kobject_uevent(&dev->kobj, action);
+ goto out;
+ }
+
+ dev_err(dev, "uevent: unsupported action-string; this will "
+ "be ignored in a future kernel version\n");
kobject_uevent(&dev->kobj, KOBJ_ADD);
+out:
return count;
}