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authorCornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>2008-06-10 11:09:08 +0200
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>2008-07-21 21:55:01 -0700
commit36ce6dad6e3cb3f050ed41e0beac0070d2062b25 (patch)
tree91c89c903b06dc8b76e66e7b2341bcd6085e81d0 /include/linux/sysfs.h
parentkobject: Transmit return value of call_usermodehelper() to caller (diff)
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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>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/sysfs.h')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/sysfs.h10
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/sysfs.h b/include/linux/sysfs.h
index 7858eac40aa7..37fa24152bd8 100644
--- a/include/linux/sysfs.h
+++ b/include/linux/sysfs.h
@@ -101,6 +101,9 @@ void sysfs_remove_bin_file(struct kobject *kobj, struct bin_attribute *attr);
int __must_check sysfs_create_link(struct kobject *kobj, struct kobject *target,
const char *name);
+int __must_check sysfs_create_link_nowarn(struct kobject *kobj,
+ struct kobject *target,
+ const char *name);
void sysfs_remove_link(struct kobject *kobj, const char *name);
int __must_check sysfs_create_group(struct kobject *kobj,
@@ -180,6 +183,13 @@ static inline int sysfs_create_link(struct kobject *kobj,
return 0;
}
+static inline int sysfs_create_link_nowarn(struct kobject *kobj,
+ struct kobject *target,
+ const char *name)
+{
+ return 0;
+}
+
static inline void sysfs_remove_link(struct kobject *kobj, const char *name)
{
}