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authorCornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>2007-01-08 20:16:44 +0100
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>2007-02-07 10:37:11 -0800
commitc744aeae9d173a953b771a7ad5c872f91fa99dec (patch)
tree83d36e211ff6d0109f3aeb29d4fd1bb2dbb2a9b3 /lib
parent717e48c29d9a58f4d31c1651bec364212da5f6b2 (diff)
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driver core: Allow device_move(dev, NULL).
If we allow NULL as the new parent in device_move(), we need to make sure that the device is placed into the same place as it would if it was newly registered: - Consider the device virtual tree. In order to be able to reuse code, setup_parent() has been tweaked a bit. - kobject_move() can fall back to the kset's kobject. - sysfs_move_dir() uses the sysfs root dir as fallback. Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com> Cc: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'lib')
-rw-r--r--lib/kobject.c6
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/lib/kobject.c b/lib/kobject.c
index 9aed594bfcac..c033dc8fa9af 100644
--- a/lib/kobject.c
+++ b/lib/kobject.c
@@ -314,7 +314,7 @@ int kobject_rename(struct kobject * kobj, const char *new_name)
/**
* kobject_move - move object to another parent
* @kobj: object in question.
- * @new_parent: object's new parent
+ * @new_parent: object's new parent (can be NULL)
*/
int kobject_move(struct kobject *kobj, struct kobject *new_parent)
@@ -330,8 +330,8 @@ int kobject_move(struct kobject *kobj, struct kobject *new_parent)
return -EINVAL;
new_parent = kobject_get(new_parent);
if (!new_parent) {
- error = -EINVAL;
- goto out;
+ if (kobj->kset)
+ new_parent = kobject_get(&kobj->kset->kobj);
}
/* old object path */
devpath = kobject_get_path(kobj, GFP_KERNEL);