Driver core: suppress uevents via filter

[Cornelia Huck]

From: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@xxxxxxxxxx>

Suppress uevents for devices if uevent_suppress is set via
dev_uevent_filter(). This makes the driver core suppress all device
uevents, not just the add event in device_add().

Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@xxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxx>


---
 drivers/base/core.c |    5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- a/drivers/base/core.c
+++ b/drivers/base/core.c
@@ -120,6 +120,8 @@ static int dev_uevent_filter(struct kset
 
 	if (ktype == &ktype_device) {
 		struct device *dev = to_dev(kobj);
+		if (dev->uevent_suppress)
+			return 0;
 		if (dev->bus)
 			return 1;
 		if (dev->class)
@@ -675,8 +677,7 @@ int device_add(struct device *dev)
 		goto PMError;
 	if ((error = bus_add_device(dev)))
 		goto BusError;
-	if (!dev->uevent_suppress)
-		kobject_uevent(&dev->kobj, KOBJ_ADD);
+	kobject_uevent(&dev->kobj, KOBJ_ADD);
 	bus_attach_device(dev);
 	if (parent)
 		klist_add_tail(&dev->knode_parent, &parent->klist_children);


Patches currently in gregkh-2.6 which might be from cornelia.huck@xxxxxxxxxx are

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