driver core: Suppress sysfs warnings for device_rename().

driver core: Suppress sysfs warnings for device_rename().

Renaming network devices to an already existing name is not
something we want sysfs to print a scary warning for, since the
callers can deal with this correctly. So let's introduce
sysfs_create_link_nowarn() which gets rid of the common warning.

Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

1 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/sysfs.h b/include/linux/sysfs.h
index 7858eac40aa7..37fa24152bd8 100644
--- a/include/linux/sysfs.h
+++ b/include/linux/sysfs.h
@@ -101,6 +101,9 @@ void sysfs_remove_bin_file(struct kobject *kobj, struct bin_attribute *attr);
 
 int __must_check sysfs_create_link(struct kobject *kobj, struct kobject *target,
                                    const char *name);
+int __must_check sysfs_create_link_nowarn(struct kobject *kobj,
+                                          struct kobject *target,
+                                          const char *name);
 void sysfs_remove_link(struct kobject *kobj, const char *name);
 
 int __must_check sysfs_create_group(struct kobject *kobj,
@@ -180,6 +183,13 @@ static inline int sysfs_create_link(struct kobject *kobj,
         return 0;
 }
 
+static inline int sysfs_create_link_nowarn(struct kobject *kobj,
+                                           struct kobject *target,
+                                           const char *name)
+{
+        return 0;
+}
+
 static inline void sysfs_remove_link(struct kobject *kobj, const char *name)
 {
 }