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| author | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> | 2007-09-13 02:53:13 -0700 |
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| committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> | 2007-10-12 14:51:09 -0700 |
| commit | 5c3e8964ce87477a12e3e9edc3742156a3929a74 (patch) | |
| tree | fa9f43c11b7eea40d8758a638b8452ae5a1e724f /fs | |
| parent | dc8c85871c9728c5fddca6854a191fd41eb9438c (diff) | |
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sysfs: spit a warning to users when they try to create a duplicate sysfs file
We want to let people know when we create a duplicate sysfs file, as
they need to fix up their code.
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs')
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/sysfs/dir.c | 6 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/fs/sysfs/dir.c b/fs/sysfs/dir.c index da4bb66a610c..5d95aa8e23c6 100644 --- a/fs/sysfs/dir.c +++ b/fs/sysfs/dir.c @@ -428,8 +428,12 @@ void sysfs_addrm_start(struct sysfs_addrm_cxt *acxt, */ int sysfs_add_one(struct sysfs_addrm_cxt *acxt, struct sysfs_dirent *sd) { - if (sysfs_find_dirent(acxt->parent_sd, sd->s_name)) + if (sysfs_find_dirent(acxt->parent_sd, sd->s_name)) { + printk(KERN_WARNING "sysfs: duplicate filename '%s' " + "can not be created\n", sd->s_name); + WARN_ON(1); return -EEXIST; + } sd->s_parent = sysfs_get(acxt->parent_sd); |