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Driver core: add device_rename function 

The network layer needs this to convert to using struct device instead
of a struct class_device.

Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
hifive-unleashed-5.1
Greg Kroah-Hartman 2006-07-03 14:31:12 -07:00
parent 2620efef70
commit a2de48cace
2 changed files with 56 additions and 0 deletions
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drivers/base/core.c
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@ -736,3 +736,58 @@ void device_destroy(struct class *class, dev_t devt)
device_unregister(dev);
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(device_destroy);
/**
* device_rename - renames a device
* @dev: the pointer to the struct device to be renamed
* @new_name: the new name of the device
*/
int device_rename(struct device *dev, char *new_name)
{
char *old_class_name = NULL;
char *new_class_name = NULL;
char *old_symlink_name = NULL;
int error;
dev = get_device(dev);
if (!dev)
return -EINVAL;
pr_debug("DEVICE: renaming '%s' to '%s'\n", dev->bus_id, new_name);
if ((dev->class) && (dev->parent))
old_class_name = make_class_name(dev->class->name, &dev->kobj);
if (dev->class) {
old_symlink_name = kmalloc(BUS_ID_SIZE, GFP_KERNEL);
if (!old_symlink_name)
return -ENOMEM;
strlcpy(old_symlink_name, dev->bus_id, BUS_ID_SIZE);
}
strlcpy(dev->bus_id, new_name, BUS_ID_SIZE);
error = kobject_rename(&dev->kobj, new_name);
if (old_class_name) {
new_class_name = make_class_name(dev->class->name, &dev->kobj);
if (new_class_name) {
sysfs_create_link(&dev->parent->kobj, &dev->kobj,
new_class_name);
sysfs_remove_link(&dev->parent->kobj, old_class_name);
}
}
if (dev->class) {
sysfs_remove_link(&dev->class->subsys.kset.kobj,
old_symlink_name);
sysfs_create_link(&dev->class->subsys.kset.kobj, &dev->kobj,
dev->bus_id);
}
put_device(dev);
kfree(old_class_name);
kfree(new_class_name);
kfree(old_symlink_name);
return error;
}

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include/linux/device.h
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@ -380,6 +380,7 @@ extern int device_add(struct device * dev);
extern void device_del(struct device * dev);
extern int device_for_each_child(struct device *, void *,
int (*fn)(struct device *, void *));
extern int device_rename(struct device *dev, char *new_name);
/*
* Manual binding of a device to driver. See drivers/base/bus.c