linux-kernel - Driver-Core: require valid action string in uevent trigger

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Date:	Thu, 14 Jan 2010 22:54:37 +0100
From:	Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@...y.org>
To:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Driver-Core: require valid action string in uevent trigger

From: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@...y.org>
Subject: Driver-Core: require valid action string in uevent trigger

No longer fall back to "add" and warn, but always require a valid
action-string written to the "uevent" file. 

Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@...y.org>
---
 drivers/base/core.c |   11 +++--------
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

--- a/drivers/base/core.c
+++ b/drivers/base/core.c
@@ -306,15 +306,10 @@ static ssize_t store_uevent(struct devic
 {
 	enum kobject_action action;
 
-	if (kobject_action_type(buf, count, &action) == 0) {
+	if (kobject_action_type(buf, count, &action) == 0)
 		kobject_uevent(&dev->kobj, action);
-		goto out;
-	}
-
-	dev_err(dev, "uevent: unsupported action-string; this will "
-		     "be ignored in a future kernel version\n");
-	kobject_uevent(&dev->kobj, KOBJ_ADD);
-out:
+	else
+		dev_err(dev, "uevent: unknown action-string\n");
 	return count;
 }
 


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