From de81d2aaebc8e5e5167cb93f674c57705898e45e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: David Brownell Date: Tue, 22 May 2007 19:49:16 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] i2c: Legacy i2c drivers shouldn't issue uevents Prevent legacy drivers from issuing uevents for device creation/removal, so that userspace can't cause modprobing loops for them. This became a problem for some legacy PC drivers. I can't easily see it becoming an issue with I2C legacy drivers, but consistency-in-paranoia seems likely to be a good thing here. For usable i2c-level driver model uevents, just switch to a new-style driver. Signed-off-by: David Brownell Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare --- drivers/i2c/i2c-core.c | 5 +++-- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/i2c/i2c-core.c b/drivers/i2c/i2c-core.c index 64f8e56d300e..435925eba437 100644 --- a/drivers/i2c/i2c-core.c +++ b/drivers/i2c/i2c-core.c @@ -697,9 +697,10 @@ int i2c_attach_client(struct i2c_client *client) if (client->driver) client->dev.driver = &client->driver->driver; - if (client->driver && !is_newstyle_driver(client->driver)) + if (client->driver && !is_newstyle_driver(client->driver)) { client->dev.release = i2c_client_release; - else + client->dev.uevent_suppress = 1; + } else client->dev.release = i2c_client_dev_release; snprintf(&client->dev.bus_id[0], sizeof(client->dev.bus_id), -- 2.11.0