From ca2f37dbc5324c7278577731033a358f1f86050a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jean Tourrilhes Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2007 10:49:30 -0800 Subject: Driver core: notify userspace of network device renames Provide rename event for when we rename network devices. Signed-off-by: Jean Tourrilhes Cc: Kay Sievers Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- lib/kobject.c | 30 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 30 insertions(+) (limited to 'lib') diff --git a/lib/kobject.c b/lib/kobject.c index bbbfab4145e..db1d23707eb 100644 --- a/lib/kobject.c +++ b/lib/kobject.c @@ -311,13 +311,43 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(kobject_set_name); int kobject_rename(struct kobject * kobj, const char *new_name) { int error = 0; + const char *devpath = NULL; + char *devpath_string = NULL; + char *envp[2]; kobj = kobject_get(kobj); if (!kobj) return -EINVAL; if (!kobj->parent) return -EINVAL; + + devpath = kobject_get_path(kobj, GFP_KERNEL); + if (!devpath) { + error = -ENOMEM; + goto out; + } + devpath_string = kmalloc(strlen(devpath) + 15, GFP_KERNEL); + if (!devpath_string) { + error = -ENOMEM; + goto out; + } + sprintf(devpath_string, "DEVPATH_OLD=%s", devpath); + envp[0] = devpath_string; + envp[1] = NULL; + /* Note : if we want to send the new name alone, not the full path, + * we could probably use kobject_name(kobj); */ + error = sysfs_rename_dir(kobj, kobj->parent->dentry, new_name); + + /* This function is mostly/only used for network interface. + * Some hotplug package track interfaces by their name and + * therefore want to know when the name is changed by the user. */ + if (!error) + kobject_uevent_env(kobj, KOBJ_MOVE, envp); + +out: + kfree(devpath_string); + kfree(devpath); kobject_put(kobj); return error; -- cgit v1.2.3