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/kobject.h b/include/linux/kobject.h
index bcd9cd173c..d1c8d28fa9 100644
--- a/include/linux/kobject.h
+++ b/include/linux/kobject.h
@@ -47,6 +47,7 @@ enum kobject_action {
         KOBJ_UMOUNT     = (__force kobject_action_t) 0x05,      /* umount event for block devices (broken) */
         KOBJ_OFFLINE    = (__force kobject_action_t) 0x06,      /* device offline */
         KOBJ_ONLINE     = (__force kobject_action_t) 0x07,      /* device online */
+        KOBJ_MOVE       = (__force kobject_action_t) 0x08,      /* device move */
 };
 
 struct kobject {
@@ -76,6 +77,7 @@ extern int __must_check kobject_add(struct kobject *);
 extern void kobject_del(struct kobject *);
 
 extern int __must_check kobject_rename(struct kobject *, const char *new_name);
+extern int __must_check kobject_move(struct kobject *, struct kobject *);
 
 extern int __must_check kobject_register(struct kobject *);
 extern void kobject_unregister(struct kobject *);
@@ -264,6 +266,8 @@ extern int __must_check subsys_create_file(struct subsystem * ,
 
 #if defined(CONFIG_HOTPLUG)
 void kobject_uevent(struct kobject *kobj, enum kobject_action action);
+void kobject_uevent_env(struct kobject *kobj, enum kobject_action action,
+                        char *envp[]);
 
 int add_uevent_var(char **envp, int num_envp, int *cur_index,
                         char *buffer, int buffer_size, int *cur_len,
@@ -271,6 +275,10 @@ int add_uevent_var(char **envp, int num_envp, int *cur_index,
         __attribute__((format (printf, 7, 8)));
 #else
 static inline void kobject_uevent(struct kobject *kobj, enum kobject_action action) { }
+static inline void kobject_uevent_env(struct kobject *kobj,
+                                      enum kobject_action action,
+                                      char *envp[])
+{ }
 
 static inline int add_uevent_var(char **envp, int num_envp, int *cur_index,
                                       char *buffer, int buffer_size, int *cur_len,