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authorAneesh Kumar K.V2006-12-19 22:01:27 +0100
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman2006-12-20 19:56:44 +0100
commit542cfce6f36e8c43f71ae9c235b78497f350ae55 (patch)
tree9f8733a9295160c3817f26a08a1bfb0b78a95c8d /include/linux/kobject.h
parentkref refcnt and false positives (diff)
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kobject: kobject_uevent() returns manageable value
Since kobject_uevent() function does not return an integer value to indicate if its operation was completed with success or not, it is worth changing it in order to report a proper status (success or error) instead of returning void. [randy.dunlap@oracle.com: Fix inline kobject functions] Cc: Mauricio Lin <mauriciolin@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/kobject.h')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/kobject.h11
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/kobject.h b/include/linux/kobject.h
index d1c8d28fa92e..76538fcf2c4e 100644
--- a/include/linux/kobject.h
+++ b/include/linux/kobject.h
@@ -265,8 +265,8 @@ extern int __must_check subsys_create_file(struct subsystem * ,
struct subsys_attribute *);
#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,
+int kobject_uevent(struct kobject *kobj, enum kobject_action action);
+int kobject_uevent_env(struct kobject *kobj, enum kobject_action action,
char *envp[]);
int add_uevent_var(char **envp, int num_envp, int *cur_index,
@@ -274,11 +274,12 @@ int add_uevent_var(char **envp, int num_envp, int *cur_index,
const char *format, ...)
__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,
+static inline int kobject_uevent(struct kobject *kobj, enum kobject_action action)
+{ return 0; }
+static inline int kobject_uevent_env(struct kobject *kobj,
enum kobject_action action,
char *envp[])
-{ }
+{ return 0; }
static inline int add_uevent_var(char **envp, int num_envp, int *cur_index,
char *buffer, int buffer_size, int *cur_len,