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>
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Cornelia Huck 2008-06-10 11:09:08 +02:00 committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
parent 0ad1d6f37c
commit 36ce6dad6e
5 changed files with 94 additions and 24 deletions

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@ -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)
{
}