Re: hotplug "rename" event for kobject_rename()?

[Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>]

On Tue, Sep 14, 2004 at 05:35:52PM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 13, 2004 at 07:14:33PM +0200, Kay Sievers wrote:
> > Hi,
> > we currently get hotplug events for kobject "add" and "remove". Wouldn't
> > it be nice to get the same kind of event for a kobject "rename"? 
> 
> I don't know, what controls a rename, a userspace event, right?

Yes, I only know about the network interfaces and that it triggered from
userspace. But with the new event channel, it's a bit difficult to let the
listeners know about that. We can't just call a hotplug script to fake an event.

> > We currently fake a hotplug-event with udev while renaming a net-device.
> > We compose the new DEVPATH and call the network hotplug script from a
> > dev.d/ callout. If we would get a real "rename" event we can get rid of
> > that indirection and the rest of userspace can act properly too :).
> > 
> > What do you think about emitting a "rename" event from:
> >   kobject_rename(struct kobject * kobj, char *new_name)
> 
> Wouldn't it just be the same as a "remove" and an "add" event?

If we define it as that, it may work. But isn't it a bit funny if a
device has a parent that is "removed" and "added" without affecting
the child devices.

> > and add the old name to the environment?
> 
> What would the environment variables look like to show the old and new
> names?

I thought about the following, but it's just off the top of my head:
  ACTION=rename
  DEVPATH=/class/net/world
  DEVPATH_OLD=/class/net/eth0

Thanks,
Kay


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