From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757071AbXD0S6f (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Apr 2007 14:58:35 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1757042AbXD0S6c (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Apr 2007 14:58:32 -0400 Received: from mx1.suse.de ([195.135.220.2]:50766 "EHLO mx1.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754252AbXD0S6P (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Apr 2007 14:58:15 -0400 From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Kay Sievers , Greg Kroah-Hartman Subject: [PATCH 32/46] Driver core: warn when userspace writes to the uevent file in a non-supported way Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2007 11:53:46 -0700 Message-Id: <1177700156641-git-send-email-gregkh@suse.de> X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.5.1.2 In-Reply-To: <11777001521006-git-send-email-gregkh@suse.de> References: <20070427185152.GA17121@kroah.com> <1177700040520-git-send-email-gregkh@suse.de> <11777000433552-git-send-email-gregkh@suse.de> <11777000471977-git-send-email-gregkh@suse.de> <11777000511784-git-send-email-gregkh@suse.de> <11777000552084-git-send-email-gregkh@suse.de> <1177700059319-git-send-email-gregkh@suse.de> <11777000632194-git-send-email-gregkh@suse.de> <11777000663361-git-send-email-gregkh@suse.de> <1177700070961-git-send-email-gregkh@suse.de> <1177700074272-git-send-email-gregkh@suse.de> <11777000773819-git-send-email-gregkh@suse.de> <11777000814075-git-send-email-gregkh@suse.de> <11777000852694-git-send-email-gregkh@suse.de> <11777000881307-git-send-email-gregkh@suse.de> <11777000923797-git-send-email-gregkh@suse.de> <11777000963332-git-send-email-gregkh@suse.de> <11777001002860-git-send-email-gregkh@suse.de> <11777001041847-git-send-email-gregkh@suse.de> <11777001072576-git-send-email-gregkh@suse.de> <11777001102852-git-send-email-gregkh@suse.de> <1177700114535-git-send-email-gregkh@suse.de> <11777001182501-git-send-email-gregkh@suse.de> <11777001222882-git-send-email-gregkh@suse.de> <1177700125350-git-send-email-gregkh@suse.de> <11777001301175-git-send-email-gregkh@suse.de> <11777001333852-git-send-email-gregkh@suse.de> <117770013729-git-send-email-gregkh@suse.de> <11777001413571-git-send-email-gregkh@suse.de> <11777001442148-git-send-email-gregkh@suse.de> <1177700148815-git-send-email-gregkh@suse.de> <11777001521006-git-send-email-gregkh@suse.de> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Kay Sievers In the future we will allow the uevent type to be written to the uevent file to trigger the different types of uevents. But for now, as we only support the ADD event, warn if userspace tries to write anything else to this file. Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- drivers/base/core.c | 3 +++ 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/base/core.c b/drivers/base/core.c index 72c6ee5..f69305c 100644 --- a/drivers/base/core.c +++ b/drivers/base/core.c @@ -296,6 +296,9 @@ out: static ssize_t store_uevent(struct device *dev, struct device_attribute *attr, const char *buf, size_t count) { + if (memcmp(buf, "add", 3) != 0) + dev_err(dev, "uevent: unsupported action-string; this will " + "be ignored in a future kernel version"); kobject_uevent(&dev->kobj, KOBJ_ADD); return count; } -- 1.5.1.2