driver core: Introduce device_move(): move a device to a new parent.

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 (DEVPATH_OLD) in addition to the usual values. For this, a new
interface kobject_uevent_env() is created that allows to add further
environmental data to the uevent at the kobject layer.

Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/sysfs.h b/include/linux/sysfs.h
index 6d5c43d31dec..2129d1b6c874 100644
--- a/include/linux/sysfs.h
+++ b/include/linux/sysfs.h
@@ -97,6 +97,9 @@ extern int __must_check
 sysfs_rename_dir(struct kobject *, const char *new_name);
 
 extern int __must_check
+sysfs_move_dir(struct kobject *, struct kobject *);
+
+extern int __must_check
 sysfs_create_file(struct kobject *, const struct attribute *);
 
 extern int __must_check
@@ -142,6 +145,11 @@ static inline int sysfs_rename_dir(struct kobject * k, const char *new_name)
         return 0;
 }
 
+static inline int sysfs_move_dir(struct kobject * k, struct kobject * new_parent)
+{
+        return 0;
+}
+
 static inline int sysfs_create_file(struct kobject * k, const struct attribute * a)
 {
         return 0;