Re: [Patch -mm 2/2] driver core: Introduce device_move(): move a device to a new parent.

[Greg KH]

On Thu, Nov 16, 2006 at 05:47:37PM +0100, Kay Sievers wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-11-16 at 15:42 +0100, Cornelia Huck wrote:
> > From: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > 
> > Provide a function device_move() to move a device to a new parent device. Add
> > auxilliary functions kobject_move() and sysfs_move_dir().
> > kobject_move() generates a new uevent of type KOBJ_MOVE, containing the
> > previous path (OLD_DEVPATH) in addition to the usual values.
> 
> > +	sprintf(devpath_string, "OLD_DEVPATH=%s", devpath);
> 
> I think it's easier to understand, if the variable starts with the same
> string as original name. I prefer DEVPATH_OLD.
> 
> > +void kobject_uevent_extended(struct kobject *kobj, enum kobject_action action,
> > +			     const char *string)
> 
> I think we should pass an array of env vars here instead of a single
> string - you never know ... :) The function could probably be named
> kobject_uevent_env() then.

I agree, care to respin these?

thanks,

greg k-h
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