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| author | Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> | 2007-07-08 22:29:26 +0200 |
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| committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> | 2007-07-19 00:49:49 +0200 |
| commit | 60a96a59569bab85571d0089682109bd3324e896 (patch) | |
| tree | b70d0174ddae44224ae5c8cea90231e659beff30 /include | |
| parent | debugfs: remove rmdir() non-empty complaint (diff) | |
| download | linux-60a96a59569bab85571d0089682109bd3324e896.tar.xz linux-60a96a59569bab85571d0089682109bd3324e896.zip | |
Driver core: accept all valid action-strings in uevent-trigger
This allows the uevent file to handle any type of uevent action to be
triggered by userspace instead of just the "add" uevent.
Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'include')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/kobject.h | 25 |
1 files changed, 17 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/kobject.h b/include/linux/kobject.h index 06cbf41d32d2..aa2fe22b1baa 100644 --- a/include/linux/kobject.h +++ b/include/linux/kobject.h @@ -36,15 +36,24 @@ extern char uevent_helper[]; /* counter to tag the uevent, read only except for the kobject core */ extern u64 uevent_seqnum; -/* the actions here must match the proper string in lib/kobject_uevent.c */ -typedef int __bitwise kobject_action_t; +/* + * The actions here must match the index to the string array + * in lib/kobject_uevent.c + * + * Do not add new actions here without checking with the driver-core + * maintainers. Action strings are not meant to express subsystem + * or device specific properties. In most cases you want to send a + * kobject_uevent_env(kobj, KOBJ_CHANGE, env) with additional event + * specific variables added to the event environment. + */ enum kobject_action { - KOBJ_ADD = (__force kobject_action_t) 0x01, /* exclusive to core */ - KOBJ_REMOVE = (__force kobject_action_t) 0x02, /* exclusive to core */ - KOBJ_CHANGE = (__force kobject_action_t) 0x03, /* device state change */ - KOBJ_OFFLINE = (__force kobject_action_t) 0x04, /* device offline */ - KOBJ_ONLINE = (__force kobject_action_t) 0x05, /* device online */ - KOBJ_MOVE = (__force kobject_action_t) 0x06, /* device move */ + KOBJ_ADD, + KOBJ_REMOVE, + KOBJ_CHANGE, + KOBJ_MOVE, + KOBJ_ONLINE, + KOBJ_OFFLINE, + KOBJ_MAX }; struct kobject { |