From: Bill Nottingham Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2005 07:47:36 +0000 (-0700) Subject: [PATCH] fix class symlinks in sysfs X-Git-Tag: v2.6.14-rc3~51^2~87 X-Git-Url: https://err.no/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=3e51377dc412df9d4933c4fd1a147b5b560abe10;p=linux-2.6 [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 Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- diff --git a/drivers/base/class.c b/drivers/base/class.c index 3b112e3542..ce23dc8c18 100644 --- a/drivers/base/class.c +++ b/drivers/base/class.c @@ -669,6 +669,7 @@ void class_device_destroy(struct class *cls, dev_t devt) int class_device_rename(struct class_device *class_dev, char *new_name) { int error = 0; + char *old_class_name = NULL, *new_class_name = NULL; class_dev = class_device_get(class_dev); if (!class_dev) @@ -677,12 +678,24 @@ int class_device_rename(struct class_device *class_dev, char *new_name) pr_debug("CLASS: renaming '%s' to '%s'\n", class_dev->class_id, new_name); + if (class_dev->dev) + old_class_name = make_class_name(class_dev); + strlcpy(class_dev->class_id, new_name, KOBJ_NAME_LEN); error = kobject_rename(&class_dev->kobj, new_name); + if (class_dev->dev) { + new_class_name = make_class_name(class_dev); + sysfs_create_link(&class_dev->dev->kobj, &class_dev->kobj, + new_class_name); + sysfs_remove_link(&class_dev->dev->kobj, old_class_name); + } class_device_put(class_dev); + kfree(old_class_name); + kfree(new_class_name); + return error; }