linux-kernel - patch driver-core-suppress-uevents-via-filter.patch added to gregkh-2.6 tree

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Date:	Thu, 12 Apr 2007 00:04:26 -0700
From:	<gregkh@...e.de>
To:	cornelia.huck@...ibm.com, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	eric.rannaud@...il.com, greg@...ah.com, gregkh@...e.de,
	kay.sievers@...y.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: patch driver-core-suppress-uevents-via-filter.patch added to gregkh-2.6 tree


This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

     Subject: Driver core: suppress uevents via filter

to my gregkh-2.6 tree.  Its filename is

     driver-core-suppress-uevents-via-filter.patch

This tree can be found at 
    http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/gregkh/gregkh-2.6/patches/


>From cornelia.huck@...ibm.com Thu Mar 29 02:10:23 2007
From: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@...ibm.com>
Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2007 11:12:11 +0200
Subject: Driver core: suppress uevents via filter
To: linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, Greg K-H <greg@...ah.com>, Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@...y.org>, Eric Rannaud <eric.rannaud@...il.com>
Message-ID: <20070329111211.7f918aeb@...dolin.boeblingen.de.ibm.com>


From: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@...ibm.com>

Suppress uevents for devices if uevent_suppress is set via
dev_uevent_filter(). This makes the driver core suppress all device
uevents, not just the add event in device_add().

Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@...ibm.com>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@...y.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de>


---
 drivers/base/core.c |    5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- a/drivers/base/core.c
+++ b/drivers/base/core.c
@@ -120,6 +120,8 @@ static int dev_uevent_filter(struct kset
 
 	if (ktype == &ktype_device) {
 		struct device *dev = to_dev(kobj);
+		if (dev->uevent_suppress)
+			return 0;
 		if (dev->bus)
 			return 1;
 		if (dev->class)
@@ -675,8 +677,7 @@ int device_add(struct device *dev)
 		goto PMError;
 	if ((error = bus_add_device(dev)))
 		goto BusError;
-	if (!dev->uevent_suppress)
-		kobject_uevent(&dev->kobj, KOBJ_ADD);
+	kobject_uevent(&dev->kobj, KOBJ_ADD);
 	bus_attach_device(dev);
 	if (parent)
 		klist_add_tail(&dev->knode_parent, &parent->klist_children);


Patches currently in gregkh-2.6 which might be from cornelia.huck@...ibm.com are

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