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authorKay Sievers <kay.sievers@novell.com>2006-10-07 21:54:55 +0200
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>2007-02-07 10:37:14 -0800
commitb7a3e813fb84624166f034e25234f98de5846bfc (patch)
tree5936d2755e6f4fcdbf3a34c743a7840cdc72b9a2
parentf9f852df2faf76a2667949ddb4947d4b8f99f02f (diff)
Driver core: allow to delay the uevent at device creation time
For the block subsystem, we want to delay all uevents until the disk has been scanned and allpartitons are already created before the first event is sent out. Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@novell.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
-rw-r--r--drivers/base/core.c3
-rw-r--r--include/linux/device.h3
2 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/base/core.c b/drivers/base/core.c
index 34ac18778d8..e13614241c9 100644
--- a/drivers/base/core.c
+++ b/drivers/base/core.c
@@ -589,7 +589,8 @@ int device_add(struct device *dev)
goto PMError;
if ((error = bus_add_device(dev)))
goto BusError;
- kobject_uevent(&dev->kobj, KOBJ_ADD);
+ if (!dev->uevent_suppress)
+ kobject_uevent(&dev->kobj, KOBJ_ADD);
if ((error = bus_attach_device(dev)))
goto AttachError;
if (parent)
diff --git a/include/linux/device.h b/include/linux/device.h
index e1e164f81ee..5ca1cdba563 100644
--- a/include/linux/device.h
+++ b/include/linux/device.h
@@ -399,9 +399,10 @@ struct device {
/* class_device migration path */
struct list_head node;
- struct class *class; /* optional*/
+ struct class *class;
dev_t devt; /* dev_t, creates the sysfs "dev" */
struct attribute_group **groups; /* optional groups */
+ int uevent_suppress;
void (*release)(struct device * dev);
};