driver core: Suppress sysfs warnings for device_rename().
driver core: Suppress sysfs warnings for device_rename().
Renaming network devices to an already existing name is not
something we want sysfs to print a scary warning for, since the
callers can deal with this correctly. So let's introduce
sysfs_create_link_nowarn() which gets rid of the common warning.
Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
diff --git a/include/linux/sysfs.h b/include/linux/sysfs.h
index 7858eac..37fa241 100644
--- a/include/linux/sysfs.h
+++ b/include/linux/sysfs.h
@@ -101,6 +101,9 @@
int __must_check sysfs_create_link(struct kobject *kobj, struct kobject *target,
const char *name);
+int __must_check sysfs_create_link_nowarn(struct kobject *kobj,
+ struct kobject *target,
+ const char *name);
void sysfs_remove_link(struct kobject *kobj, const char *name);
int __must_check sysfs_create_group(struct kobject *kobj,
@@ -180,6 +183,13 @@
return 0;
}
+static inline int sysfs_create_link_nowarn(struct kobject *kobj,
+ struct kobject *target,
+ const char *name)
+{
+ return 0;
+}
+
static inline void sysfs_remove_link(struct kobject *kobj, const char *name)
{
}