On 11/15/06, Cornelia Huck <[email protected]> wrote:
On Wed, 15 Nov 2006 10:31:59 +0100,
Kay Sievers <[email protected]> wrote:
> We need the old DEVPATH in the environment (or something similar),
> otherwise we can't connect the event with the new device location to the
> current device. :)
Duh. I've attached another completely untested patch below.
> > Wouldn't we need something similar for kobject_rename()
> > as well?
>
> Maybe kobject_rename() can go, if we have a move function which can be
> used. In any case, the events should look identical to userspace, yes.
I think kobject_move() and kobject_rename() are two different beasts.
kobject_move() changes the topology, kobject_rename() changes an
identifier. Shouldn't they be reported in two different ways to
userspace?
Why do we need to have them at all? Devices should not "move" in the
trees - it it moves we should just treat them as old devices going
away and new devices appearing... Renames - they are only used to
rename net devices, don't they? I wonder if we could have just a
separate "alias" or "name" sysfs attribute for them and get away with
renaming of devices.
--
Dmitry
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