driver core: Introduce device_move(): move a device to a new parent.
Provide a function device_move() to move a device to a new parent device. Add
auxilliary functions kobject_move() and sysfs_move_dir().
kobject_move() generates a new uevent of type KOBJ_MOVE, containing the
previous path (DEVPATH_OLD) in addition to the usual values. For this, a new
interface kobject_uevent_env() is created that allows to add further
environmental data to the uevent at the kobject layer.
Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
diff --git a/lib/kobject.c b/lib/kobject.c
index 7dd5c0e..744a4b1 100644
--- a/lib/kobject.c
+++ b/lib/kobject.c
@@ -311,6 +311,56 @@
}
/**
+ * kobject_move - move object to another parent
+ * @kobj: object in question.
+ * @new_parent: object's new parent
+ */
+
+int kobject_move(struct kobject *kobj, struct kobject *new_parent)
+{
+ int error;
+ struct kobject *old_parent;
+ const char *devpath = NULL;
+ char *devpath_string = NULL;
+ char *envp[2];
+
+ kobj = kobject_get(kobj);
+ if (!kobj)
+ return -EINVAL;
+ new_parent = kobject_get(new_parent);
+ if (!new_parent) {
+ error = -EINVAL;
+ goto out;
+ }
+ /* old object path */
+ devpath = kobject_get_path(kobj, GFP_KERNEL);
+ if (!devpath) {
+ error = -ENOMEM;
+ goto out;
+ }
+ devpath_string = kmalloc(strlen(devpath) + 15, GFP_KERNEL);
+ if (!devpath_string) {
+ error = -ENOMEM;
+ goto out;
+ }
+ sprintf(devpath_string, "DEVPATH_OLD=%s", devpath);
+ envp[0] = devpath_string;
+ envp[1] = NULL;
+ error = sysfs_move_dir(kobj, new_parent);
+ if (error)
+ goto out;
+ old_parent = kobj->parent;
+ kobj->parent = new_parent;
+ kobject_put(old_parent);
+ kobject_uevent_env(kobj, KOBJ_MOVE, envp);
+out:
+ kobject_put(kobj);
+ kfree(devpath_string);
+ kfree(devpath);
+ return error;
+}
+
+/**
* kobject_del - unlink kobject from hierarchy.
* @kobj: object.
*/
