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Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2007 16:26:47 -0800
From: Jean Tourrilhes <jt@....hp.com>
To: Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de>
Cc: Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>,
Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@...pl>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
Linux kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.20] kobject net ifindex + rename
On Wed, Feb 28, 2007 at 07:36:17AM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 27, 2007 at 05:27:41PM -0800, Jean Tourrilhes wrote:
> > diff -u -p linux/drivers/base/class.j1.c linux/drivers/base/class.c
> > --- linux/drivers/base/class.j1.c 2007-02-26 18:38:10.000000000 -0800
> > +++ linux/drivers/base/class.c 2007-02-27 15:52:37.000000000 -0800
> > @@ -841,6 +841,8 @@ int class_device_rename(struct class_dev
>
> This function is not in the 2.6.21-rc2 kernel, so you might want to
> rework this patch a bit :)
Thanks for all you good comments. I ported my patch to
2.6.21-rc2, and tested it both on a hotplug and a udev system. Patch
is attached, I would be glad if you could push that through the usual
channels.
Also, I realised that I forgot to say in my original e-mail
that migrating udev to use ifindex instead of ifname would fix the
remove/add race condition for network devices. But that's not going to
happen overnight...
Have fun...
Jean
Signed-off-by: Jean Tourrilhes <jt@....hp.com>
---------------------------------------------------------
diff -u -p linux/include/linux/kobject.j1.h linux/include/linux/kobject.h
--- linux/include/linux/kobject.j1.h 2007-02-28 14:26:29.000000000 -0800
+++ linux/include/linux/kobject.h 2007-02-28 14:27:54.000000000 -0800
@@ -48,6 +48,7 @@ enum kobject_action {
KOBJ_OFFLINE = (__force kobject_action_t) 0x06, /* device offline */
KOBJ_ONLINE = (__force kobject_action_t) 0x07, /* device online */
KOBJ_MOVE = (__force kobject_action_t) 0x08, /* device move */
+ KOBJ_RENAME = (__force kobject_action_t) 0x09, /* device renamed */
};
struct kobject {
diff -u -p linux/net/core/net-sysfs.j1.c linux/net/core/net-sysfs.c
--- linux/net/core/net-sysfs.j1.c 2007-02-28 14:26:45.000000000 -0800
+++ linux/net/core/net-sysfs.c 2007-02-28 14:27:54.000000000 -0800
@@ -424,6 +424,17 @@ static int netdev_uevent(struct device *
if ((size <= 0) || (i >= num_envp))
return -ENOMEM;
+ /* pass ifindex to uevent.
+ * ifindex is useful as it won't change (interface name may change)
+ * and is what RtNetlink uses natively. */
+ envp[i++] = buf;
+ n = snprintf(buf, size, "IFINDEX=%d", dev->ifindex) + 1;
+ buf += n;
+ size -= n;
+
+ if ((size <= 0) || (i >= num_envp))
+ return -ENOMEM;
+
envp[i] = NULL;
return 0;
}
diff -u -p linux/lib/kobject_uevent.j1.c linux/lib/kobject_uevent.c
--- linux/lib/kobject_uevent.j1.c 2007-02-28 14:26:58.000000000 -0800
+++ linux/lib/kobject_uevent.c 2007-02-28 14:27:54.000000000 -0800
@@ -52,6 +52,8 @@ static char *action_to_string(enum kobje
return "online";
case KOBJ_MOVE:
return "move";
+ case KOBJ_RENAME:
+ return "rename";
default:
return NULL;
}
diff -u -p linux/drivers/base/core.j1.c linux/drivers/base/core.c
--- linux/drivers/base/core.j1.c 2007-02-28 15:45:45.000000000 -0800
+++ linux/drivers/base/core.c 2007-02-28 15:47:30.000000000 -0800
@@ -1007,6 +1007,8 @@ int device_rename(struct device *dev, ch
char *new_class_name = NULL;
char *old_symlink_name = NULL;
int error;
+ char *devname_string = NULL;
+ char *envp[2];
dev = get_device(dev);
if (!dev)
@@ -1014,6 +1016,15 @@ int device_rename(struct device *dev, ch
pr_debug("DEVICE: renaming '%s' to '%s'\n", dev->bus_id, new_name);
+ devname_string = kmalloc(strlen(dev->bus_id) + 15, GFP_KERNEL);
+ if (!devname_string) {
+ put_device(dev);
+ return -ENOMEM;
+ }
+ sprintf(devname_string, "INTERFACE_OLD=%s", dev->bus_id);
+ envp[0] = devname_string;
+ envp[1] = NULL;
+
#ifdef CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED
if ((dev->class) && (dev->parent))
old_class_name = make_class_name(dev->class->name, &dev->kobj);
@@ -1049,12 +1060,20 @@ int device_rename(struct device *dev, ch
sysfs_create_link(&dev->class->subsys.kset.kobj, &dev->kobj,
dev->bus_id);
}
+
+ /* This function is only used for network interface.
+ * Some hotplug package track interfaces by their name and
+ * therefore want to know when the name is changed by the user. */
+ if(!error)
+ kobject_uevent_env(&dev->kobj, KOBJ_RENAME, envp);
+
put_device(dev);
kfree(new_class_name);
kfree(old_symlink_name);
out_free_old_class:
kfree(old_class_name);
+ kfree(devname_string);
return error;
}
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