Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH 32/36] driver core: Introduce device_move(): move a device to a new parent. | From | Marcel Holtmann <> | Date | Sun, 03 Dec 2006 17:26:03 +0100 |
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Hi Greg,
> 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.
has this one been tested? I don't get it working. I always get an EINVAL when trying to move the TTY device of a Bluetooth RFCOMM link around.
And shouldn't device_move(dev, NULL) re-attach it to the virtual device tree instead of failing?
Regards
Marcel
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