Driver core: allow to delay the uevent at device creation time

For the block subsystem, we want to delay all uevents until the
disk has been scanned and allpartitons are already created before
the first event is sent out.
Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

drivers/base/core.c

@@ -589,7 +589,8 @@ int device_add(struct device *dev)
 		goto PMError;
 	if ((error = bus_add_device(dev)))
 		goto BusError;
-	kobject_uevent(&dev->kobj, KOBJ_ADD);
+	if (!dev->uevent_suppress)
+		kobject_uevent(&dev->kobj, KOBJ_ADD);
 	if ((error = bus_attach_device(dev)))
 		goto AttachError;
 	if (parent)

include/linux/device.h

@@ -399,9 +399,10 @@ struct device {
 
 	/* class_device migration path */
 	struct list_head	node;
-	struct class		*class;		/* optional*/
+	struct class		*class;
 	dev_t			devt;		/* dev_t, creates the sysfs "dev" */
 	struct attribute_group	**groups;	/* optional groups */
+	int			uevent_suppress;
 
 	void	(*release)(struct device * dev);
 };