Driver core: allow certain drivers prohibit bind/unbind via sysfs

[deliverable/linux.git] / drivers / base / bus.c

diff --git a/drivers/base/bus.c b/drivers/base/bus.c
index 973bf2ad4e0d3ae19eed9d91d53bef730a43d50a..63c143e54a5783656d9f0208acd3c9c4166ec4e2 100644 (file)
--- a/drivers/base/bus.c
+++ b/drivers/base/bus.c
@@ -689,15 +689,19 @@ int bus_add_driver(struct device_driver *drv)
                printk(KERN_ERR "%s: driver_add_attrs(%s) failed\n",
                        __func__, drv->name);
        }
-       error = add_bind_files(drv);
-       if (error) {
-               /* Ditto */
-               printk(KERN_ERR "%s: add_bind_files(%s) failed\n",
-                       __func__, drv->name);
+
+       if (!drv->suppress_bind_attrs) {
+               error = add_bind_files(drv);
+               if (error) {
+                       /* Ditto */
+                       printk(KERN_ERR "%s: add_bind_files(%s) failed\n",
+                               __func__, drv->name);
+               }
        }
 
        kobject_uevent(&priv->kobj, KOBJ_ADD);
        return 0;
+
 out_unregister:
        kfree(drv->p);
        drv->p = NULL;
@@ -720,7 +724,8 @@ void bus_remove_driver(struct device_driver *drv)
        if (!drv->bus)
                return;
 
-       remove_bind_files(drv);
+       if (!drv->suppress_bind_attrs)
+               remove_bind_files(drv);
        driver_remove_attrs(drv->bus, drv);
        driver_remove_file(drv, &driver_attr_uevent);
        klist_remove(&drv->p->knode_bus);