Re: linux-2.6.23-git3: Many sysfs-related warnings in dmesg

From: Kay Sievers
Date: Fri Oct 26 2007 - 14:06:06 EST


On Fri, 2007-10-26 at 12:05 -0500, Larry Finger wrote:
> On my openSUSE 10.3 x86_64 system running v2.6.24-rc1-281-g22d2aa1,
> I get the sysfs rename messages.

Care to try this? Seems like a silly bug in the core if
SYSFS_DEPRECATED=y. That's why we didn't catch this earlier, sorry.

Thanks a lot for the help,
Kay



From: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@xxxxxxxx>
Subject: Driver Core: fix bug in device_rename() for SYSFS_DEPRECATED=y

Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@xxxxxxxx>
---

diff --git a/drivers/base/core.c b/drivers/base/core.c
index c134341..3f4d6aa 100644
--- a/drivers/base/core.c
+++ b/drivers/base/core.c
@@ -1228,18 +1228,18 @@ int device_rename(struct device *dev, char *new_name)
sysfs_remove_link(&dev->parent->kobj, old_class_name);
}
}
-#endif
-
+#else
if (dev->class) {
sysfs_remove_link(&dev->class->subsys.kobj, old_device_name);
error = sysfs_create_link(&dev->class->subsys.kobj, &dev->kobj,
dev->bus_id);
if (error) {
- /* Uh... how to unravel this if restoring can fail? */
dev_err(dev, "%s: sysfs_create_symlink failed (%d)\n",
__FUNCTION__, error);
}
}
+#endif
+
out:
put_device(dev);


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