From: Tejun Heo on
On 01/12/2010 05:21 AM, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> From: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm(a)xmission.com>
>
> Don't open code the renaming of symlinks in sysfs
> instead use the new helper function sysfs_rename_link
>
> Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm(a)aristanetworks.com>

Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj(a)kernel.org>

Thanks.

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From: Serge E. Hallyn on
Quoting Eric W. Biederman (ebiederm(a)xmission.com):
> From: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm(a)xmission.com>
>
> Don't open code the renaming of symlinks in sysfs
> instead use the new helper function sysfs_rename_link
>
> Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm(a)aristanetworks.com>

Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue(a)us.ibm.com>

> ---
> drivers/base/core.c | 18 ++++++------------
> 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/base/core.c b/drivers/base/core.c
> index 2820257..ba66394 100644
> --- a/drivers/base/core.c
> +++ b/drivers/base/core.c
> @@ -1574,22 +1574,16 @@ int device_rename(struct device *dev, char *new_name)
> if (old_class_name) {
> new_class_name = make_class_name(dev->class->name, &dev->kobj);
> if (new_class_name) {
> - error = sysfs_create_link_nowarn(&dev->parent->kobj,
> - &dev->kobj,
> - new_class_name);
> - if (error)
> - goto out;
> - sysfs_remove_link(&dev->parent->kobj, old_class_name);
> + error = sysfs_rename_link(&dev->parent->kobj,
> + &dev->kobj,
> + old_class_name,
> + new_class_name);
> }
> }
> #else
> if (dev->class) {
> - error = sysfs_create_link_nowarn(&dev->class->p->class_subsys.kobj,
> - &dev->kobj, dev_name(dev));
> - if (error)
> - goto out;
> - sysfs_remove_link(&dev->class->p->class_subsys.kobj,
> - old_device_name);
> + error = sysfs_rename_link(&dev->class->p->class_subsys.kobj,
> + &dev->kobj, old_device_name, new_name);
> }
> #endif
>
> --
> 1.6.5.2.143.g8cc62
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