On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 8:32 AM, Colin Cross <[email protected]> wrote:
> Some triggers create sysfs files when they are enabled.  Send a uevent
> "change" notification whenever the trigger is changed to allow userspace
> processes such as udev to modify permissions on the new files.
>

This looks like an workaround only for led trigger, can we fix this in
sysfs level?

Thanks,
-Bryan

> Signed-off-by: Colin Cross <[email protected]>
> ---
>  drivers/leds/led-triggers.c |   13 +++++++++++++
>  1 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/leds/led-triggers.c b/drivers/leds/led-triggers.c
> index 46b4c76..a85ce09 100644
> --- a/drivers/leds/led-triggers.c
> +++ b/drivers/leds/led-triggers.c
> @@ -102,6 +102,12 @@ ssize_t led_trigger_show(struct device *dev, struct 
> device_attribute *attr,
>  void led_trigger_set(struct led_classdev *led_cdev, struct led_trigger 
> *trigger)
>  {
>         unsigned long flags;
> +       char *event = NULL;
> +       char *envp[2];
> +       const char *name;
> +
> +       name = trigger ? trigger->name : "none";
> +       event = kasprintf(GFP_KERNEL, "TRIGGER=%s", name);
>
>         /* Remove any existing trigger */
>         if (led_cdev->trigger) {
> @@ -122,6 +128,13 @@ void led_trigger_set(struct led_classdev *led_cdev, 
> struct led_trigger *trigger)
>                 if (trigger->activate)
>                         trigger->activate(led_cdev);
>         }
> +
> +       if (event) {
> +               envp[0] = event;
> +               envp[1] = NULL;
> +               kobject_uevent_env(&led_cdev->dev->kobj, KOBJ_CHANGE, envp);
> +               kfree(event);
> +       }
>  }
>  EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(led_trigger_set);
>
> --
> 1.7.7.3
>



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