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[PATCH] fix class symlinks in sysfs
authorBill Nottingham <notting@redhat.com>
Thu, 22 Sep 2005 07:47:36 +0000 (00:47 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>
Thu, 22 Sep 2005 14:58:24 +0000 (07:58 -0700)
commit3e51377dc412df9d4933c4fd1a147b5b560abe10
tree2a73926a882a883f82b1066d9e72fd0962d58237
parentd305ef5d2a4e77bfa66160513f4a7494126a506b
[PATCH] fix class symlinks in sysfs

The class symlinks in sysfs don't properly handle changing device names.

To demonstrate, rename your network device from eth0 to eth1. Your
pci (or usb, or whatever) device will still have a 'net:eth0' link,
except now it points to /sys/class/net/eth1.

The attached patch makes sure the class symlink name changes when
the class device name changes. It isn't 100% correct, it should be
using sysfs_rename_link. Unfortunately, sysfs_rename_link doesn't exist.

Signed-off-by: Bill Nottingham <notting@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
drivers/base/class.c