driver core: create a private portion of struct device

This is to be used to move things out of struct device that no code
outside of the driver core should ever touch.

Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
This commit is contained in:
Greg Kroah-Hartman 2008-12-16 12:23:36 -08:00
parent 2e5ba26a48
commit 2831fe6f9c
3 changed files with 23 additions and 0 deletions

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@ -63,6 +63,18 @@ struct class_private {
#define to_class(obj) \
container_of(obj, struct class_private, class_subsys.kobj)
/**
* struct device_private - structure to hold the private to the driver core portions of the device structure.
*
* @device - pointer back to the struct class that this structure is
* associated with.
*
* Nothing outside of the driver core should ever touch these fields.
*/
struct device_private {
struct device *device;
};
/* initialisation functions */
extern int devices_init(void);
extern int buses_init(void);

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@ -109,6 +109,7 @@ static struct sysfs_ops dev_sysfs_ops = {
static void device_release(struct kobject *kobj)
{
struct device *dev = to_dev(kobj);
struct device_private *p = dev->p;
if (dev->release)
dev->release(dev);
@ -120,6 +121,7 @@ static void device_release(struct kobject *kobj)
WARN(1, KERN_ERR "Device '%s' does not have a release() "
"function, it is broken and must be fixed.\n",
dev_name(dev));
kfree(p);
}
static struct kobj_type device_ktype = {
@ -536,6 +538,12 @@ static void klist_children_put(struct klist_node *n)
*/
void device_initialize(struct device *dev)
{
dev->p = kzalloc(sizeof(*dev->p), GFP_KERNEL);
if (!dev->p) {
WARN_ON(1);
return;
}
dev->p->device = dev;
dev->kobj.kset = devices_kset;
kobject_init(&dev->kobj, &device_ktype);
klist_init(&dev->klist_children, klist_children_get,

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@ -28,6 +28,7 @@
#define BUS_ID_SIZE 20
struct device;
struct device_private;
struct device_driver;
struct driver_private;
struct class;
@ -371,6 +372,8 @@ struct device {
struct klist_node knode_bus;
struct device *parent;
struct device_private *p;
struct kobject kobj;
char bus_id[BUS_ID_SIZE]; /* position on parent bus */
unsigned uevent_suppress:1;